The reason to invest
This is a UK focused article, so therefore we've used the UK FTSE All-Share Stock Market Index, a smart investment portfolio would be globally diversified, so you would avoid a concentrated 'home bias'.
50 years of EXcuses, why not to invest
2017 – Trump Inauguration
2016 – Brexit Vote
2015 – Chinese stock market turbulence
2014 – Fighting in Ukraine and Crimea. Fall in Crude Oil price. Scottish UK referendum.
2013 – US Senate Expenses Scandal. Boston Marathon Bombing
2012 – Greek Government Debt Crisis.
2011 – Tsunami in Japan, London Riots
2010 – BP Oil Spill, Coalition Government / UK Spending Cuts
2009 – Collapse of UK Banks
2008 – Global Financial Crisis (The Great Sale)
2007 – Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as Prime Minister, SNP becomes largest political party in Scotland
2006 – Sago Mine Disaster. Mumbai Train Bombings
2005 – London Bombings, Hurricane Katrina
2004 – Madrid Train Bombings, Decline of the Dollar
2003 – UK Begins Iraq Military Campaign
2002 – US Invades Afghanistan
2001 – 9/11 (World Trade Centre)
2000 - .COM Bubble Bursts
1999 – Yugoslavia Conflict, US Presidential Impeachment
1998 – Russian Currency Devaluation
1997 – Asia Financial Crisis
1996 – US and Russian Troops Enter Bosnia
1995 – S&P500 All-Time High
1994 – Mexican Peso Devaluation
1993 – Separation of Czechoslovakia
1992 – Rising Interest Rates
1991 – UK Recession
1990 – Gulf War
1989 – Tokyo Stock Market Crash
1988 – US Savings and Loan Crisis
1987 – Black Monday
1986 – Chernobyl Disaster
1985 – UK Riots (Brixton and Broadwater)
1984 – Miner’s Strike
1983 – Global Market Highs
1982 – Falklands War, Recession, 3 million unemployed
1981 – Brixton Riots
1980 - Iraq War, High Inflation
1979 – Devolution of Scotland and Wales
1978 – Winter of Discontent (Public Centre Strikes)
1977 – Rising Inflation
1976 – UK Sterling Crisis. High Inflation and unemployment
1975 – Thatcher becomes Leader of the conservative party. EEC Referendum
1974 – State of Emergency Announced in Northern Ireland
1973 – Stock Market Falls 45%, British Shares fall £4billion in One Day
1972 – Watergate Scandal, Munich Massacre
1971 – Indo-Pakistan War
1970 – US Invade Cambodia
1969 – Dow Jones declines 18%
1968 – Robert F kennedy Assassination
1967 – Arab-Israeli War
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