Long Run

Categories: Investing

Yes, great Eagles Song. So great, in fact, that we want to share with you a few of their fine phrasings.

You can go the distance
We'll find out in the long run (in the long run)
We can handle some resistance
If our love is a strong one (is a strong one)

The lyrics apply in very heavy Eagles fashion to real life and, more importantly, to investing. Being rich for 13 weeks doesn’t really help you, or anyone else. Being rich even in a get-rich-slowly dynamic is the brass ring worth fighting for. The short run is Hollywood actors desperate to fill childhood attention gaps and bad parenting; the long run is doctors saving 10 grand a year to pay for their kids’ college.

Long good; short bad. Wasn’t that a line from Animal Farm?

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