Category: Investing
Twelve Years of Stock Market Misery: Redux
Nine months ago I wrote my own little analysis of the ‘new’ market realities. There has been a lot of movement since then, most of it up. But where do we stand today? The S&P is up from 1117 to 1256. The Dow and Nasdaq are up similarly percentage-wise. But if you look back from…
Twelve Years of Stock Market Misery
If you invested in an Index Fund based on the S&P 500 Index on May 1 of 1998, congratulations. Your portfolio has neither lost nor gained a penny — of course if you factor in inflation, you’ve actually lost a lot of money. Twelve years, nothing but losses. Whether you were just getting started investing…
Stop whining, start saving
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Don’t Fence Me In (Part 2)
Speaking of capital gains, why do I have to pay income tax multiple times? I am paid for work, income tax is withheld (and adjusted at year end to make sure I have paid enough), I invest my money in a company stock, I sell the stock, I pay income tax again! I put my…
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