Must be a Vanguard Opus vanity.
I’m soooo glad that over the past 20 years, Hubby and I invested in Real Estate and Gold & Silver. This past year has been quite profitable.
Alice, we’ve been doing the silver/gold thing as well, on the side, over time. We don’t have much yet, but, it never will be worth less than what we put into it. We also have the basic set-aside investments and so far have only lost 3k. We stopped the bleeding but, we are watching because, we hope to snap up some good stocks once the election is over (maybe). If not, we haven’t had our clocks cleaned.
We see how heavily we are indoctrinated to invest and invest and invest. Well, guess who gets all that money,,,not the investor. The best we can hope for is to make a profit of some sort but then we have to share it if it’s in stocks/financials. We are learning to save more, buy more precious stuff and lower our profile in credit and stocks. It’s actually harder than it sounds because our culture is so entrenched in the notion that the financial “experts” are the ones to trust with our money. That is not always true and some are learning that very painful lesson the hard way.