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To: BunnySlippers

One more time.

YOU said “The census says 57 million Americans own mutual funds ... or 50.3% of the population.

I said: That can’t be right....(57 million is about 20% of 217 million...Got it?)..because the census says:

Nationally, there were 217.8 million people age 18 and over;

72 posted on 09/15/2007 3:35:02 PM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)

To: AuntB

Read the link I posted to the census.

76 posted on 09/15/2007 3:37:56 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)

To: AuntB

Here’s the quote from the article I posted from the census bureau:

More than half (50.3 percent) of U.S. households — nearly 57 million — owned stocks and mutual funds in 2005

HOUSEHOLDS ... HOUSEHOLDS

Or do you wants infants and children to be counted as investors????

81 posted on 09/15/2007 3:43:14 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Buy a Mac ...)

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