Opinion: The stock market is getting scary. Here’s what you should do.
There are troubling signs that the market may be overheated.
From The Times
August 19, 2025

No one can know for sure where the stock market will go next. But there are worrisome signs that investor optimism may have gotten out of hand, the economist Burton Malkiel writes in Times Opinion.

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Morten Kantsø

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