01 Aug 12 20:56, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:



 RW>> I was at the bank the other day, visiting my money...it hasn't
 RW>> changed in appearance since I left it there 7 years ago. It's value
 RW>> used to earn enough in dividends to pay the monthly bills with some
 RW>> of it left over to buy a bag of candy.

 MH> Keeping money in the bank these days just means your value and buying
 MH> power keeps declining.

8^) So does keeping it in the stock market. One of my stocks has gone down
below what I paid for it originally. The rest seem to do fluctuate just
above that. But I'd sure like to see them where they were 4 years ago.

 MH> Not like the days of saving and adding to net worth.

Nope.

 MH> These days, saving mean declining net worth.

So does owning a house, but we'll all have to live with that.

                R\%/itt


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