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If a Downturn Is Coming, 50 Years of Market History Says This Is the Single Best Response

Wall Street history is pretty clear: if there's a bear market on the way, you'll probably want to follow Winnie the Pooh's sage advice.

If a Downturn Is Coming, 50 Years of Market History Says This Is the Single Best Response

Published September 5, 2026 · Category: Finance

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Winnie the Pooh probably isn't the investment guru that first comes to mind when you think about Wall Street. And yet he has offered some pretty sage investing advice: "Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something." The history of investing over the past 50 years very clearly shows that this fictional, honey-loving bear could be on to something. Here's why.

Turning to a real person, iconic investor Warren Buffett, the former CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRKA)(NYSE: BRKB), has said that "Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130 IQ. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing."

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