Money On The Sidelines

Oh, the markets' jitters make nerves. Nervous investors. Nellies. The investing community saves its pennies, nickels, and dimes, and waits for just the right moment to get invested. By holding cash, their money doesn't grow. It just sits, gathering bedbugs under the mattress.

That money is on the sidelines, just waiting for the right signal. Like when a flock of birds suddenly takes flight, that money suddenly goes from sitting on the sidelines to being invested in the NFL-football game called the markets. Woot. Go Bears. No, the Bears suck. Go Packers.

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