While there are many reasons, the reason I pursue stocks is to achieve financial independence and financial independence opens up your choices. Those choices enable people to make the decisions they want to pursue and avoid situations that they don’t want to do.
While the weather man/woman continually predicts the weather, he/she is more often wrong versus right.
Predicting the weather is subject to millions if not billions of variables. No wonder they are usually wrong, but they can often get somewhere in the ballpark.
