Editorial April 23, 2001 Issue

Investment perspectives

Margaret Rogers

Spiritual insight offers perspective that's important to investors.

The hold-on-to-your-hat stock market gyrations of recent months have given a lot of investors a wild ride. I heard an interview with one day trader whose portfolio had peaked at over $200,000, and then plummeted to $90,000. Keeping in mind that the majority of people on the planet couldn't even imagine making that amount of money in a lifetime, I was still interested in her answer to the question of how it felt to gain and lose so much so fast.

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