The government wants to keep the capital markets healthy and thriving. They will do whatever in their power to avoid or reverse a recession.

The total return of a property that can be rented can easily beat any other investment type. The combined rate of return of capital appreciation and rental income is substantially better.

Humans’ reactions are contaminated with their cognitive biases, greed, fear, and survival instinct. However, capital market success requires precisely the opposite behavior of what your intuition is suggesting.

Greed and fear are both good and healthy for an investor and capital markets as a whole. Emotions are like fire, beneficial if controlled, destructive if wild.

All common investments have a great feature; the maximum amount you can lose is your capital.

The greatest fear of a professional investor, who manages money for a living, is capital withdrawals at the wrong time.

Individual investors have significant advantages over professional money managers. Retail investors, like you and I, have nobody to report. We have no benchmark to beat and have no fear of capital flight. There are no quarter and year ends, and performance is not linked to calendars.

Investors need to keep their emotions in check for a successful investment career. It is the most important requirement. It’s even more critical than having access to capital and markets.

Market participants are humans, and so are their behaviors.