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problemif you stickwith a plan  Sunday, July 7, 2013  It's not
easy knowing what to do with investments these days, even when
you're in the information business.  Ever since the housing
bubble burst in 2007, many people ran to safety in bond or money
market mutual funds, or even just put cash in a savings account.
They paid very little but the gurus said they were the safe
place to be. As in pennies on the dollar are better than losing
the dollar.  Now it turns out the U.S. economy is doing so well
that the Fed probably is going to start buying fewer of its own
bonds. This means interest rates are going to go up and some
people are warning us about the places the experts said were
safe -- such as bond funds.  These were supposed to be the
stodgy but solid earners, that paid you dividends every month.
The wise approach supposedly was to tuck away from every
paycheck as much as you could