Investing in Your 20s: 3 Stocks to Watch

If you're in your 20s and perhaps just starting out as an investor, you may look at the recent market downturn and economic uncertainty and say, "No thanks, I'll wait." One, you have a long time horizon, so you can wait out any short-term volatility and benefit from the long-term returns that good stocks deliver. The last time Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B) stock had a year this bad, it was 2008, and we all know what happened then -- the market tanked during the Great Recession.