However much investors might fret about the stock market in a downturn, history suggests the market will eventually recover. The S&P 500 took back all of its losses in the Great Recession of 2008 ...

While the potential for a serious market downturn hasn’t vanished, I think it’s also time to begin thinking about another problem: the danger of a market melt-up.

But in general, for the money you can afford to invest for the long haul, he said, use low-cost, diversified stock index funds. They reduce the risk of picking the wrong individual stocks and they ...