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    Technology Stocks: Should You Bail?

    by John Waggoner, Senior Associate Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Jan 03, 2019 4 minutes

    If you're starting to suspect that intermittent meltdowns are an in足escapable feature of investing in technology stocks, you're correct. The tech rout that began in August 2018 is just the most recent example. Tech investors want to know what caused the latest tech short-circuit and whether there are any bargains among the ruins. But you should also be asking whether you've got the fortitude to invest in such a volatile sector.

    New technology has always revolutionized American life, and tech stocks have always been a part of that revolution. Railroad stocks dominated the 19th-century stock market; RCA, known to traders as Radio, was a lion of the Roaring Twenties. Polaroid dominated the Go-Go Years of the 1960s, and

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