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What Jackie Chan would do in a market like this

I happen to love Jackie Chan. My kids do as well. Just as we watch family movies together as a family, we also talk about investing. While I have not yet started discussing the benefits of writing covered calls with my 4 month old, I do talk about investing basics with my older kids. They clearly understand that "stocks go up and they go down." Why is it so hard for us to handle bear markets -- we know they come.

Anyway, I started to think how martial-arts master and family favorite Jackie Chan would deal with our current topsy-turvy market.

One of our favorites is Drunken Master, a film whose plot centers on a young and mischievous Wong Fei Hung, played by Jackie Chan. He gets into trouble in a variety of ways, including showing up an overbearing assistant kung fu teacher, unknowingly making advances on his own cousin, fighting with his aunt, and beating up the son of an influential man in town.

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