Ben Carlson

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1,555 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

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There's been a handful of bear markets.

And I think it's just important to recognize that the stock market can fall even if the economy is still growing and doing okay.

Yeah, it's interesting because you see those studies that say like, hey, if you just miss the 25 worst days in the market, you would have done this.

And if you just missed the 25 best days, it would actually have been this.

The funny thing is that those best and worst days happen together.

It's during the bear market.

You can see in March 2020, which is one of those volatile years since the Great Depression,

There were these big 8% or 9% down days when the pandemic hit.

But then there was also these huge 8% or 9% up days.

And that's the difference is that the volatility tends to cluster during those bear markets because people panic to the upside and the downside.

It's like, oh, yes, it's over.

Let's everyone back in.

And you see these huge gains.

And then it's like, no, we're taking away all that sunny attitude.

We're taking it away.

And then we're going to go back down.

And you see, because like I said, people panic.

Those volatility clusters, that's what makes it so hard to understand what's going on in a bear market.

Because sometimes you get these dead cat bounces.

It sucks you back in.

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