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LESSON 1 · Invest Without Fear

PAUSE TO THINK

How much buying power did a 1950 dollar lose by today?

About 92%.

A single dollar from 1950 stretched as far as roughly $13 does now. Put another way, that old dollar buys only about 8 cents of goods today. Decades of quiet inflation did the rest.

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