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Von yunsi12, 02:18Comparing stock market investing to gambling is just plain wrong. Indeed, the AARP is engaging in disinformation, which Merriam Webster
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obscure the truth."
AARP executives must know their advertisement is false. Why? Because the definition of diversification used above comes from the AARP
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Index funds, number in the hundreds. The returns are pretty nice too, with a lifetime return ranging from 6.4% to 10.7% for funds in
existence at least ten years.
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charge sales commissions, provides low investment minimums and strives to keep management fees and total operating expenses below the
industry average." If its Investment Program could charge fees to manage Social Security personal accounts, would AARP complain? Wanna bet?
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The AARP position on investing: If you are old enough (over 50) to be a member, AARP gives you access to all sorts of diversified, high-
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like to invest part of his forced Social Security contribution in a personal account. He's out of luck. When the AARP does it, it's sound
investing. When you want to do it through a Social Security personal account, it's gambling.
There is one word for AARP's position on Social Security reform. It is "a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not."
That's the definition for hypocrisy.
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