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    6 months ago

    Anyone with a retirement plan benefits from it, which, according to census.gov, is at least half of the population over age 24. You should open one - it’s easy!

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        Any regular person putting significant cash in individual stocks instead of index funds is just gambling. All US broad market index funds beat inflation over every 10 year period since index funds have existed.

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        The S&P 500 has increased 2100% since 1993.

        What do you think? Do you have an investment account?