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customerserviceguy

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3. The market

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Sat Feb 29, 2020, 03:18 AM

Feb 2020

has been artificially high for quite some time, all it took was something to spook the market to get the bubble to burst. Thank goodness my IRA has been in nothing but money market funds for the past two years.

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