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Naive Man Puts Money Into 401(k) as if Future Exists (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Not true. https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/07/05/average-stock-market-return-democrat-republican-pr/

[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Simple starting and ending prices don’t prove this point. Performance isn’t a simple number that you can put over 4 years because not everyone is investing in 4 year periods.

Trump had the worst crash we’ve ever had under him. Bush was also awful. Might as well ignore everything before that for being decades out of date.