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Most people know the rule is buy low, sell high. If you buy that, the problem is knowing when the market has peaked or bottomed out.
Just about everybody knows the stock market is long overdue for a correction of 20% or more — maybe a lot more.
Experts on Wall Street and world financial markets have been predicting another recession, some almost daily, since the last one ended more than 10 years ago.
Could the next government shutdown end the record 10-year bull market and trigger another recession? It may not be long until we find out.
This is the longest bull market in history. But eventually it will change, the market will tank.
Fans of the Thrift Savings Plan hope new withdrawal rules encourage more people to stick with it when they move to another job or retire.
A growing number of Thrift Savings Plan investors are nervously wondering how much longer the current bull market will last, and can last.
Last month the Thrift Savings Plan implemented a series of changes in withdrawal rules it hopes/expects will lead to more people leaving their investments in the TSP when they leave government.
So how’s the retirement nest egg you’re building one paycheck at a time going?
Most of the 34,000 active and retired feds with million-dollar-plus Thrift Savings Plan accounts got there by keeping cool. Most have been steady investors for decades.
The first TSP millionaires were all alike and today, they still have a lot in common. The vast majority have been investing the maximum for 29-plus years.
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board announced in 2017 it would broaden the I fund’s benchmark to include more emerging markets, including China.
Thanks to the ups and downs in the global markets, some of the 37,612 feds who were Thrift Savings Plan millionaires at the end of June may be back to six-figure balances.
Are you a fed who needs more realistic investing guidance? Look at your own Thrift Savings Plan account and those or your 5,690,000 fellow account holders.