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How Many Bear Markets Have You Lived Through?

The Big Picture

By then, we began to have meaningful assets in our savings/retirement accounts and the bear markets had a bigger economic impact on those finances. February 27, 2023) Looking at the Very Very Long Term (November 6, 2003) Bull & Bear Markets Behavioral Finance 1.

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My Backup Took A Big Step Forward

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Yahoo Finance had an article about the comments on an article about retirement which itself drew a ton of comments. The success stories include people retiring young as well as people retiring late or never retiring. I've been very actively volunteering since 2003 and the chief of our department since 2012.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

If you’re depending on income to fund your retirement, 5% rates are a blessing. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6. ( A Wealth of Common Sense ) see also The Great and Awful Thing About These Interest Rates : The era of low interest rates is over. In the blink of an eye, the Fed went from punishing savers to punishing borrowers.

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A Blogger Looks At 58

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

For many years, I've said I did not want to retire from what I do for a living realizing that is the sort of thing that I could change my mind at some point. Twenty years later and I am still in the same place, not wanting or planning to retire. We had a 2003 and upgraded to 2023. We upgraded our 4runner.

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Satyam Scam – The Story of India’s Biggest Corporate Fraud!

Trade Brains

The firm was worth $1billion in 2003. The foundation of the metro plans was laid in the year 2003. SEBI appointed retired SC justice Barucha to oversee the transaction in order to instil trust. Satyam’s books were cooked by overstating its revenues, profit margins, and profits for over a period of 5 years from 2003 to 2008.

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Don't get an "F" on FBAR

Brown Advisory

In 2014, an 87-year-old, retired specialty-glass importer faced more than $2 million in penalties for failing to disclose a $7 million Swiss account which dated back to the 1960s. military banking facilities; certain bank-to-bank settlements; accounts owned by certain retirement plans. In 2022, a professor with dual U.S.

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Endowment Style & Selling Volatility

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There were places to make money during that run, most notably foreign stocks and equal weight S&P 500, that ETF came out in 2003 and had very good years until 2008. That's a long time for a broad based index to not make any progress. It then had a huge snap back year in 2009.