Financial Questions

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What keeps you at up at night (financially speaking)?Worrying if I’ll ever get to a comfortable financial point in my life where looking at my bank account doesn’t make me want to cry (at times). Thinking about how much further along I should be financially/carreer, keeping up with the jones’/peer’s mentality.

If you could get a straight answer from some you could trust about your most important financial, career and market related questions what would you ask? Is the middle class doomed forever? Why does big business and the poor get unlimited mulligans and the middle get the shaft (or has to fund those mulligans) constantly?

Do you feel it's hard to plan for your future because of economic uncertainty?I feel that it’s hard to plan for the future b/c of the economy and b/c of the society we live it. I’m tired of opening the paper or reading breaking headlines where innocent people are killed on a weekly basis and before the week is over it’s just another forgotten statistic. I don’t really think too far into the future, b/c I honestly question whether I want to live in this culture for the rest of my life.

If you had known about the recent financial crisis in advance would you have made different decisions?yes, I would have sold my house 4 years prior to when I did, at the peak of the housing market.
Financially I didn’t trust the market then, luckily I was very green at the start, and I wouldn’t trust it now after everything I’ve been exposed to.


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