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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:22 PM Original message |
If you invested in a Dow index seven years ago, you've made 2.1 percent annual return. |
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Generic Brad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
1. You've convinced me |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Actually, it might be a good time to start buying again, now that George WMD |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. And that could have been our Social Security money sitting there gathering dust nt |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I hadn't thought of that. Excellent point! nt |
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A HERETIC I AM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. And if that is ALL you invested in... |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I went overseas long ago, but still, US stocks pull the other ones down too. nt |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. I just got an alert from my RBS account |
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jlake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's much worse than that when you factor in the declining value of the dollar. |
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KoKo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. And inflation in Food, Medical Care and Oil & Gas Prices....about 10 % |
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aint_no_life_nowhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
8. I think the DOW has risen something like 436 points in all since Jan. 14, 2000 |
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1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
10. ok. this will probably get me a tombstone but... |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. You are so getting a tombstone! |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Our stockbroker said that things |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-19-08 08:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. You are correct in the long-term. Historically, stocks give the best returns |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-17-08 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
14. wow it's almost like |
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