Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Returns

Re:Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Ret... by gumby on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @02:34PM (#32086908)

> Everything I've seen in the news for last few months just seems to say "sorry, the last 50 years was a gravy train, it'll never work that way again, you're screwed".

I first came to Palo Alto in 1984. All the houses were underwater (worth less than their mortgages). The tech boom was over and consensus was that it wasn’t coming back. Too bad you missed that!

Just keep investing (dollar cost averaging). Pick your poison: “barbell” as some other comments have suggested or just a couple of very broad index funds. Since you have a long time ahead of you, I’d recommend the latter. You can spend some of it on a down payment when that makes sense to you.

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Re:Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Ret... by mywittyname on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @05:43PM (#32089133)

People tend to not appreciate the struggles that the people before us had. We are looking at their situation with the absolute knowledge that things got better.

We distort the lives of those in the past much in the same way do the people we follow on social media.

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Re:Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Ret... by nostrademons on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @10:49PM (#32091431)

Also survivorship bias. We tend to forget the people that died penniless and alone.

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