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Mark.b2

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7. Breaking this out by age groups would be more telling....

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 01:56 PM

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50+ year olds with $1-2 million 401k accounts will skew the numbers. For many in that agr bracket, retirement accounts are their largest source of wealth.

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