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Inflation applies equally to all investments. That you're mentioning it specifically for my sentiments only shows you're a "pumper" who wants people to cash out your gambles.
I continue to save money and search for ways to reduce spending. THAT is that only way the middle class ever climbed up out of the poverty zone.
Now ... sorry, I never took a soaking on the stock market or any other market, for that matter. There is no route of investigation that's open to an investor to properly determine the path of any stock, since it's impossible to determine all the frauds going on, and it's also impossible to determine the net effect of hundreds to thousands of others who are speculating on the price of the asset in question.
I was trying to make the point that the stock market itself is a poor investment for the majority, or for the majority of the wealth of the entire. You just made my point for me ... since due to the apparent odds, people are better off preserving their wealth AGAINST all the losses that lurk in such a corrupt and volatile market.
And I'm going to continue to keep most of my money in the form of insured investments like CDs. I don't suffer the risks of capital losses, which you just admitted (which it also TRUE) just RAPES the investments of the common man. The economic law of "risk and reward" was NEVER revoked. People are just too stupid to understand the law in its simplicity, hence they get taken again and again as their capital value is blown away in the latest investment fad.
P.S. It's STILL not a "buyer's market" for housing no matter what the corrupt mainstream media says. House prices will fall nationwide until at least 2013, and that's dependent upon the government NOT interfering in the liquidation of bad debts as they are. What are the chances that the government will stop interfering, as it has done seriously for about a year now? ZERO. So house prices will essentially COLLAPSE as we will have to endure what Japan is STILL enduring after its huge property bubble of 1990.