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How a magician’s secret can help retirement savers succeed – Carosa

The siren song of soaring stocks can send savers crashing into stony shoals. Heres how to prevent this.

By Chris Carosa | Updated on December 06, 2017
The siren song of soaring stocks can send savers crashing into stony shoals. Here’s how to prevent this. (Photo: Shutterstock)

With a bird-like body and the head of a woman, the Sirens of Greek mythology famously lured sailors to their doom with the magic of their sweet singing. The only human to have escaped their enticement was the hero Odysseus, but only by having himself lashed securely to a mast as he sailed by the island of the Sirens.

His crew, whose ears were filled with wax to make them deaf to the Sirens’ song, were under strict orders not to untie Odysseus no matter how strong his pleas.

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