Of course, even though the Mayans got it wrong (or just decided to stop messing with the dang calendar already), people always find plenty of reasons to think doom's right around the corner. (I'm guilty of it sometimes too, having a gloomy disposition much of the time.) The fiscal cliff talks' current stalemate is causing many stocks to plunge, in a whole other doom-and-gloom scenario.
As opposed to "panic buying" of canned goods, guns, and batteries, many investors are "panic selling" stocks in the face of what is being perceived as imminent disaster. As gloomy as I may get sometimes, I think that's a big mistake.
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