• aviationeast@lemmy.world
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    24 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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      24 days ago

      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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      23 days ago

      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.