• aviationeast@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The nice thing is over time historically the stock market or at least index funds always have gain. So either you will recover or… We all have bigger problems.

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      The nice thing is over time historically the stock market or at least index funds always have gain.

      The analysis that was based on excluded the effect of markets going out of existence. If those events are taken into account, there’s little to no long-term gain at all.

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        1 day ago

        Hence the we have bigger problems. At least for the next ten years the stock markets won’t say, hey its time to try helping out the poor. If the stockmarkets completely implodes, yeah we got some other problems goingonn.

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      Cool. But adding 5, 10, 20 extra years to get to the same valuation in your retirement plan isn’t “nice”.

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        Groovy. You are right, I was just using it as a transition to my comment. Who doesn’t love waiting an extra 15 years for retirement?