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Two of the most painful words in investing are “if only.”

If only you’d listened to that voice in your head that told you inflation would shatter all modern records and energy stocks would surge. If only, when you just knew the Federal Reserve would jack up interest rates, you’d bailed out of your bond funds and dumped that cryptocurrency bet. If only you’d acted on your hunch that technology stocks were overpriced and ditched them before they tanked. 

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