This episode of the Finance Flash Go podcast answers an important question: What has the stock market done over the long term?

And the answer is...Over the long term, the overall stock market has always gone up!

If you put money in the overall stock market at any point in history and just did nothing and kept it there for 20 years, you would have made a lot of money. This is largely what you are doing by investing in broadly diversified index funds. For example, the brokerage Vanguard (my favorite for its low costs and ease of use) has an index fund of every stock in the entire U.S. stock market. Buy that index fund and you own the next Enron, but you also own the next Apple. And everything in between. This is a safe bet. Over time, I'll show you how to enact a system of rebalancing your accounts to ensure you always buy low, sell high, and profit from the margin.

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