It’s not unusual to hear prognostications of doom and gloom when the markets are in disarray, as they have been for several months now. A front page article in the Wall Street Journal this past week would indicate that stocks might be in store for a ten year lull, in other words, dead flat performance. If you read the headline alone (“Stocks Tarnished by Lost Decade: U.S. Shares in Longest Funk Since 1970s"), you might just consider running for the exits in a fit of panic.

But, should investors worry and should they consider abandoning equities for safer bets? Not quite, here’s why.