A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I enrolled in my employer’s retirement savings plan. Five percent of each paycheck went into a bunch of mutual funds. For the first few months, I didn’t pay much attention to my money. There wasn’t very much of it, anyway. But then the stock market kept appearing on the news because the Dow Jones kept hitting new record highs.

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