While we are focussed on Trumps and the Ukraine...

[LakeVermilion]

the markets are robbing us. The market goes up: I lose a few bucks, the market drops: losses accelerate, market rebounds: I'm left behind.

Luckily, I don't have much in there, but if people are depending on their investments, they are in a bad place.

[Walleye]

1. Me. I'm depending on the retirement money I invested in the stock market.

It’s not like you could put the money in the bank, because it would have been eaten up without any interest

[onecaliberal]

2. My retirement fund is in the market.

It’s all rigged AGAINST us. They own the people who could change it so yeah…

[cilla4progress]

3. I think we've all decided the correct name is Ukraine,

not the Ukraine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Ukraine#:~:text=The%20use%20of%20%22the%20Ukraine,no%20official%20alternative%20long%20name.

[LakeVermilion]

5. I don't think I capitalized the "t" in the

just sayin'.

[Abnredleg]

4. It depends on when you got in

I’ve been invested on low cost index funds for over 30 years, and while I’ve seen several recessions, overall the market has averaged about 8%. The market is rather frothy at the moment but you have to look at it as being at the end of a long bull market which has to come to an end at some point. The market dropped 50% in 2008 but recovered in five years and gained 200% since then, which means 401ks are at record levels, which in turn was a major factor in the Great Resignation we keep reading about.

If you are a long ways from retirement then you just ride out down markets. If you are close to retirement then you should have shifted a portion of your portfolio in to bonds to buffer loses in the market. I’m 50/50 stocks/bonds.

[Pantagruel]

7. Actually, since 2011

the SPY appears to have outgained median U.S. housing prices? I guess it depends on where you own or what stocks you invest in.

[Pantagruel]

9. Using the S&P 500

V. the U.S. median home price, it appears stocks return a bit more. All kinds of caveats but look it up and see for yourself.