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NYC_SKP

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6. My "savings" were in my home, which went almost upside down, and my AIG plan.

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 18, 2014, 05:44 PM

Nov 2014

The only saving grace is that I was able to invest in a different home while the market was still down, buy at auction at a really good price that would have been out of reach before.

Vultures.

Sorry about your mom.

My mom and dad had county pensions, a dying form of security.

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Anyone wanna take a break from Ferguson and shoot down this FB post? [View all] LaydeeBug Nov 2014 OP

This 401K crap is like the RW Personal Retirement Account & Medical Savings Account movements. NYC_SKP Nov 2014 #1

Mom never did get hers back. KamaAina Nov 2014 #2

My "savings" were in my home, which went almost upside down, and my AIG plan. NYC_SKP Nov 2014 #6

Well, she did marry a retired corporate attorney KamaAina Nov 2014 #7

What you describe is market timing by wealth investors brush Nov 2014 #3

The Stock market is a shell game GreatGazoo Nov 2014 #4

My Apple Stock is up 60% in the past year... brooklynite Nov 2014 #8

yes. I put my father in Apple when the stock was $10 (2001) GreatGazoo Nov 2014 #9

The Union pension funds are all in the stock market... brooklynite Nov 2014 #10

This all great stuff guys, and I really do appreciate it. nt LaydeeBug Nov 2014 #5