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Re:Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the Unit... by ThrustVectoring on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @09:17PM (#15598225)
I'm not, but then again, the vast majority of my wealth at retirement is in paychecks I haven't earned yet. Even at 100% equity, I'd be happy to see a market correction. Like, people who started investing in stocks in 2009 are doing really well.
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Re:Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the Unit... by refurb on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @12:15AM (#15598756)
This is the key! Even when the economy was going into the crapper in 2008, I left my money in (just rebalancing annually). I lost 30% of my money at the bottom.

However, in the last decade or so, I made it all back plus another 60%. If I had pulled out I'm pretty sure I would have missed a lot of those gains.

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