Ben Carlson

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Stock Club · #315: How to Invest Through Booms, Busts & Bubbles (w/ Ben Carlson) · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And a lot of times it's very surprising, the outcomes of what can happen.

So I just think history gives you an idea of how far the pendulum can swing in either direction, from highs to lows, euphoria to panic and all these different in-betweens.

And just open your mind to the fact that the outcomes are never really known in advance.

It's easy to look back at a chart and say, oh, that little squiggly line, I would have totally bought that.

But then you think about how people reacted and felt at the time, and the kind of financial pain people were going through.

And the other piece is just that, despite all the bad things that can happen, the outcomes can still be pretty good.

The history of financial markets is two steps forward, one step back.

But the history of 10% returns in the U.S.

stock market for the past 100 years is inclusive of all the bad stuff that's happened.

I think that's kind of the glass-half-full thing you have to think through.

Yeah, bad stuff can and will happen and your results can still be pretty good.

Yeah.

And the second decision is almost always the harder one.

That's why I say market timing is just the introduction of brain damage into the investing process.

And the worst thing is, if you do it once and you're right, then you think you can keep doing it again and again.

But yeah, you get out and you go, alright, fine, I'm going to buy when the market falls X%.

10%, I'm getting back in.

What happens if the market gets away from you and now it's up 30%?

Do you move your line in the sand up?

Or you stay where you were and now the market's got to fall even further to get back to where you were?

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