Good it's called capitalism. We need creative destruction to move forward.
>> Retirees and the public were left holding the bag.
This!
Largely because the finance industry(or perhaps the world) is run by sales people.
Don't be a sucker, if you don't understand your financial assets in detail(e.g. if you are buying an index fund, understand why, not just based on past performance, go deep, what's the weighting?(currently float weighted which makes it easiest to sell to you, but the worst possible weighting makes it buy high and sell low).
Fuck that's a shit fuck ton of work for just a surface level analysis. But you should do much more research into your mutual funds/stocks than you do your next car purchase.
So yeah, it's not that they were left holding the bag, it's that they were sold free money that turned out to be not so free. Imagine that.
So is money.
>> 80% of last generations Fortune 500s are gone.
Good it's called capitalism. We need creative destruction to move forward.
>> Retirees and the public were left holding the bag.
This!
Largely because the finance industry(or perhaps the world) is run by sales people.
Don't be a sucker, if you don't understand your financial assets in detail(e.g. if you are buying an index fund, understand why, not just based on past performance, go deep, what's the weighting?(currently float weighted which makes it easiest to sell to you, but the worst possible weighting makes it buy high and sell low).
Fuck that's a shit fuck ton of work for just a surface level analysis. But you should do much more research into your mutual funds/stocks than you do your next car purchase.
So yeah, it's not that they were left holding the bag, it's that they were sold free money that turned out to be not so free. Imagine that.