Don't Give Up on This Wild Bull Market

I get a kick out of the investment experts who are now telling us that making money in stocks isn't going to be easy anymore. For instance, Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital proclaimed earlier this year: "The easy money has been made."

I hate to pick on Marks because he's a brilliant investor. But this time he's dead wrong. I don't know where Marks has been the past nine years. But investing in stocks has hardly been "easy."

This Nine-Year Bull Market Took Work

To start with, no investor I know has forgotten the savage 2007-09 bear market. Standard & Poor's 500-stock