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<blockquote data-quote="olroadbeech" data-source="post: 5409611" data-attributes="member: 52145">I&#039;ve continued my automatic buying every month into a regular brokerage account.Yes it got scary in 2007-8 but we kept it up hoping the market would come back as it had over it&#039;s long history.It cam back and our investment did very well since we kept buying in the dips.No one can say what will happen but we are continuing to buy. We may lose our shirts but hope the market will play out as it usually does.We could stay on the sidelines by transferring everything to cash and bonds which a lot of people are doing&nbsp; but inflation will just eat that up but more slowly.Our dollars have halved in recent years. So pick your poison. Losing money thru inflation which will Never come back or gamble in the casino of the stock market and hope that history will play out with returns of 8% a year from the last 40-50 years.I&#039;m not sure what to do so just stay with the market. What scares us is the corruption may finely catch up with us. We do have a lot of cash stashed away and do hedge with only 10% in precious metals and about 40% in real estate .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="olroadbeech, post: 5409611, member: 52145"] I've continued my automatic buying every month into a regular brokerage account. Yes it got scary in 2007-8 but we kept it up hoping the market would come back as it had over it's long history. It cam back and our investment did very well since we kept buying in the dips. No one can say what will happen but we are continuing to buy. We may lose our shirts but hope the market will play out as it usually does. We could stay on the sidelines by transferring everything to cash and bonds which a lot of people are doing but inflation will just eat that up but more slowly. Our dollars have halved in recent years. So pick your poison. Losing money thru inflation which will Never come back or gamble in the casino of the stock market and hope that history will play out with returns of 8% a year from the last 40-50 years. I'm not sure what to do so just stay with the market. What scares us is the corruption may finely catch up with us. We do have a lot of cash stashed away and do hedge with only 10% in precious metals and about 40% in real estate . [/QUOTE]

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