The key concept to remember is to avoid the extremes.

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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal last year, Mr. Sunstein said Mr. Obama was intrigued by "law and behavioral economics" as an approach to regulation that would avoid ideological extremes.

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You can avoid this market-timing nightmare by observing extremes in the percentage of stocks that are undervalued according to ValuEngine.

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