How much longer can the stock market keep going up? There has to be a day of reckoning at some point, right?

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Are you one of those people who looks gift horses in the mouth? Or complains about how the free beer is too cold? I bet you don’t pick up pennies off the ground, am I right?

Although 2008 was 7 years ago, it still weighs heavy on our collective mind. That was a painful time, and a lot of folks still haven’t fully recovered. If I had a nickel for every prospective client or person who has told me they freaked out and moved everything into cash in 2008, and still had it there, my wife and I could have a nice dinner at La Jolla. (Read the full article as previously published in the Montgomery Advertiser Sunday May 24th)

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