[Brian Griffin]

Stocks are a way of buying into the future profit streams of corporations.

Those profit streams will often remain significant.

[bert]

A well diversified mutual fund removes the need to be a good stock picker and allows reliance on those who in fact are.

The purchase of shares of such a mutual fund is infact not betting on stocks but betting on America.

Although the market is at present down, if you did not sell, you did not lose.