If you start out at zero, the only way to go is up. Derp!
20/20 hindsight, right? Unfortunately, at the time the right wingers went "Chicken Little" on us, and kept insisting disaster was going to show up at any moment. For those who listened to them, and pulled money out of stocks and put it in defensive positions, it was a once-in-a-lifetime lost opportunity. For those who started with the reasonable assumption that wingnuts are nearly always wrong about everything, and doubled down on those stock investments, it was an era of getting rich.

