4% came with webtv, Bernstein's Efficient Frontier and this(Dory36) forum via Firecalc. I had no idea how much fun I had - except in hindsight. Note - Wellesley started 1970.
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Heh. I'm guessing your opinion of that era was formed as a middle school student.
It was formed by 35,973 stories, most of them almost exactly alike, about how my dad bought stocks in the mid 60's for $xxx and finally gave up in the early 70's when they were down to $x and thats why he'd never own stocks again. And how they of course went right back up again the minute he sold and are worth 20x as much now. And how the bonds all paid lousy rates too. And...and...and...
So you depression babies werent the only ones who had so suffer from the investing diatribes
You two have just described my father-in-law and my father.I can't speak for other depression babies but I never had to listen to any diatribes about investing. The only stock my dad ever talked about was the live variety that he had to milk every morning...just before he walked to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways.
It was OK as long as the bong was full and you could score some decent "windowpane" once in awhile
