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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 703760, member: 3011&quot;]Most of the increase will be due to inflation.&nbsp; But people tend to underestimate how difficult it is to beat inflation.&nbsp; Just staying even is a tremendous accomplishment.&nbsp; Gold will probably stay even with inflation over very long periods of time, but not after taxes.&nbsp; And if gold does particularly well, expect ownership to be outlawed or subjected to windfall profits taxes.&nbsp; For myself, I&#039;m relying mostly on selected stocks to stay even with or ahead of inflation.&nbsp; I think investing in index funds is a losing game due to the way they are constructed.&nbsp; Jack Vogel, formerly of Vanguard, has been running around preaching the value of index investing for more than a decade.&nbsp; Over that period of time, nobody who followed his advice has made a dime and now find themselves significantly behind the inflation benchmark and likely never to catch up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>No, it isn&#039;t easy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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