I flipped over to "yahoo finance" just to check things out for a moment and i saw a message that said: "the Construction numbers are key to interpreting the Friday's Job report".

The reason i like finance so much is because there is always "something" that is going to determine the general opinion of the investors--whether it be Jerome Powell, the GDP numbers, the job report, etc. etc. etc.   Sometimes if Warren Buffet sneezes funny, the markets shift.

Invest in index funds, people.  Put your money there and don't listen to the daily goings on in the financial world.  And the best index funds are those that either tie to the S&P 500 or a very good subset of the S&P 500.  These index funds are safer and overtime they will provide you higher than normal growth--and probably beating those monkeys that are throwing darts at the financial market wall.

Global index funds would also be a good investment--safer even than the S&P 500.  They might not pay off quite as well, but over the long term they will come in better than "inflation".  Investments in stocks will beat investments in bonds over the long term.  Bonds tend to be safer that stocks, but bonds should return near "inflation" results--stocks should return better than "inflation" results.

As you grow older, every financier will tell you to shift some of your stock investments to bond investments to protect yourself from a catastrophe that could wipe you out.  That is good advice; however, i would say this as a counter.

Without a war, pandemic, or other stupid catastrophe (like the one we had in 2008--that shouldn't have been a catatsrophe, but was turned into one because the people in charge did not have a clue)--the stock market should be positive.  With a catastrophe, losses as much of 50% of your monies can happen.  The thing is this.  If you can take a 50% hit and can wait two-years for that 50% loss be regained, then i would say "stay heavily in invested in stocks".  If you cannot even think of losing 50% of your monies in a given time, then i think i would blend my portfolio with both stocks and bonds.

On the longer term, bonds will keep you up with inflation.  On the longer term, stocks will keep you ahead of inflation--and that is the true goal of finance--to make more than what inflation eats up otherwise.  You never want the case to be that you are making less than the cost of inflation.  That's what bonds and stocks are for.

Of course, before you get too heavily into stocks and bonds, your first main investment should be in your "home"--your castle.  But homes are not meant to be used for gambling purposes--like both stocks and bonds are.  We have made that mistake in the past, so keep that in mind, too.

ps.  I thought most of the construction that was being done these days was from a contingency of "undocumented, alien, non-citizen Hispanics".  I wonder how that number is represented in the Construction numbers.  Do they count or not count--that is the question.