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Stocks for the Long Run? Maybe not all the Time

One of the core assumptions of modern financial planning and finance is that stocks have better returns over the long-run than bonds. The reason “seems” obvious: stocks are riskier. There is, after all, a greater chance of going to zero since bond investors come before stock investors in a legal line to get paid out after a company fails.