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yes but in that case the Fed rode to the rescue and delivered the greatest bull market in US history. There's absolutely no way the next decade looks like the last so this is a poor comparison.

As far as rebalancing --- you may have noticed stocks and bonds falling in unison this year, so rebalancing is not much help.



Take a gander at the PE ratio for the S&P500 over time. A substantial amount of those gains are backed by increased profitability.

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio/table/by-year

And not sure what your comment on rebalancing not being much "help" is. Rebalancing is not about "help" it's about sticking to an investing approach.

And I can recall back in the early 2000's when people said "Equity growth will never be like it was the 90's".

Glad I never listened to them.


Why not l? If the market returns don’t keep up at 6-7% annualized government pensions will run out of cash.

If rates go up drastically, government debt payments go up.

The game must go on! *until the us empire collapses, taking down with it the western world


Yes, pensions and Illinois are cooked.

But EU has had negative interest rates for years, and will collapse (break up the eu monetary union) before USA goes under. Dollar strength confirms capital is moving into USA.




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