Stress-Free Investing

You hit the nail right on the head . Those of us who rode out 2008  believed historically the facts and statistics supported the retaining of Canadian Bank shares while collecting dividends, won the day. I have over million more dollars now and fifty grand in dividends so a pull back isn't going to convince me the sky is falling. Chicken littles can run around pointing to the sky but the truth is "$60,000 INVESTED" in the big six bank shares twenty years ago is now worth " $860,000 TODAY"(www.longrundata.com) through the greatest recession since the great depression of 1929. 
This theory has been tested in conditions that were of a severity we are not likely to see again for a few generations