re: #499 lawhawk

The long term growth of the stock markets have provided a regular rate of return, so while a short term disruption can mean a big hit on investments, if you’re dollar cost averaging your purchases via a 401k, you’ll be able to take advantage of the down markets to buy more shares that will end up making money over the long run.

Lordy, we hope so, but since about halfway into the bubble circa 1999, that has not been the case. And that’s ten years now. The most recent ten years.

Note that the Japanese Nikkei has been pegged at around 10k for about … twenty years now?