Yeah, that's what I wanted to check too...
OK, pretty much as expected. Including inflation + pop. growth shows we were better off before the 110th congress took over.
Yeah, that's what I wanted to check too...
OK, pretty much as expected. Including inflation + pop. growth shows we were better off before the 110th congress took over.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/three-mistakes-investors-keep-making-again-and-again-1410533307
Three Mistakes Investors Keep Making Again and Again
Spend less than you earn. Put the difference in a low-cost broad-based index fund. Leave it alone and let it grow over time.
Incorrectly predicting your future emotions.
Too many investors are confident they will be greedy when others are fearful. None assume they will be the fearful ones, even though somebody has to be, by definition.
Failing to realize how common volatility is.
You needn’t have been a genius to have done well in stocks over the past decade. You just had to not have panicked in 2008, when everyone around you was going crazy.
Trying to forecast what stocks will do next.
You have no control over what the market will do next. You have complete control over how you react to whatever it does.