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Is Now the Time to Invest in the Stock Market?

For the last two years, I’ve watched Squawk Box and Squawk on the Street every morning.  At night, it’s a whole hour of Mad Money with Jim Cramer.  Can I just tell you how annoyed I was when Cramer moved to the mornings as well after Mark Haines and Erin Burnett both left the Squawk?  It’s not that I don’t like him, but it’s enough hearing his rantings just once a day.  Well with all this economic news I’m absorbing, I figured I’d put it to use. I’ve had an untouched IRA account sitting in a money market fund for over two years.  I put it all in cash after the 2009 downturn in the economy.  As the stock market has been yo-yo’ing in the last two weeks, I’ve taken advantage and started buying into funds at a really low price.  It’s fun routing for lower and lower prices as I put all my money back into the market.  There’s enough time before I retire that all this economic uncertainty isn’t bothering me.  I see it as an opportunity.  Maybe I’ll even use a couple of Cramer’s stock suggestions!

How do you feel about the market?  Invest? Or sit this one out?