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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

Meaning, you do not get the 8-10% long-term gains without living through a significant number of market events, ranging from cyclical drawdowns to longer secular bear markets, and full-on crashes. 2000-13 : Secular bear market did not make new highs until March 2013 2018 : ~20% pullback as the economy slowed, FOMC hiked.

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Rabbithole: What Do People Get Wrong About Money?

The Big Picture

Who we are financially is very different than who we become in middle age or after retirement. During the 2000 crash, I had no 401k, and my wifes 403B was tiny. Our experiences mashed up with three different personalities and three different outlooks on money. The ones that should have mattered the most I was blas about.

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Melted Rocks & Retirement Planning

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

At 50 though, you do need to have some context for how viable your idea of retirement is. That's the number you need to cover. We have a handful of annual expenses like property tax that amortize out to about $600/mo plus maybe another $1000-$2000/mo in discretionary and one-offs. If not, then something has to give.

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Will Anyone Have Enough To Retire?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Lending Tree posted a study showing how much people need saved to retire in/near 384 cities in the US. The averages you see from various reports are typically more akin to emergency funds than retirement funds. One note about their process is the effective tax rate for the Prescott Valley numbers would be well under 22%.

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Want/Need To Retire Early? Avoid This Crucial Mistake

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Marketwatch posted an advice type of column where a reader asked about his retirement readiness as he just got laid off and now would like to be done with working. They have a combined $350,000 in qualified retirement accounts and $200,000 in taxable accounts. This list starts the year at about $9000 including $2000 for property tax.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Schroders ) • The Exact Age When You Make Your Best Financial Decisions There’s a magic number for when your expertise and cognitive powers align. If you’re depending on income to fund your retirement, 5% rates are a blessing. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6. Savings rates have rocketed and UK savers can earn over 5% on deposits.

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Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?

Mr. Money Mustache

The value of the S&P 500 index of stocks, where most of us hopefully have a good chunk of our retirement savings stashed into index funds, is up about fifty seven percent in just the past two years. Does this make it more vulnerable to a huge crash in the future, and will it affect my retirement? 4.3% – 5.3%