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Retiring in a downturn
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Most people finance their retirement with a certain amount of faith: Investing will help their savings keep pace with inflation, institutions will continue to work as they always have, it will all work out in the end.
It's challenging to maintain that optimism in moments like these, when it seems just about everything is at stake and nothing is certain. Of course the future has always been uncertain.


