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Personal.
I know people who lost more than half of their retirement during the 2008 crash because they just let their money sit in Stock funds as the market crashed and burned.
One person at nasa I knew lost over $200,000.
Making or not losing thousands dollars per year is worth the time. All it takes is around 5 minutes once or twice each business day to check oil, gold, stock prices, trade volume, then on the 20th check the jobs and consumer numbers then each quarter the quarterly reports. On the 20th and quarterly reports you might spend a little more than 5min.
If legitimately stupid people can check fantasy football crap every day and make money off it then the average proletariat can make money and prevent catastrophic loss in the stock marke by checking it daily.
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1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
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