Name:   architect - Subject:   Better Off?...you bet!! Date:   8/22/2016 7:48:40 PM (updated 8/22/2016 7:53:33 PM)

Sorry you haven't done well over the last 8 years.  Guess you just didn't have the forsight to take advantage of the 130% increase in the DOW or the moxie to invest in bonds as interest rates were cut by 2/3ds.  Our family's very conservative portfolio, excluding real estate, has increased over 80% inspite of some big cash withdrawals to travel and make major purchases.  If we were younger and felt comfortable taking a more aggressive approach the increase would have been well over what it was.  I estimate that with the real estate depression our real property holdings dropped about 20% in value between 2007 and 2011 but are now back 20 to 30% above its peak value in 2007.  Our 2.5% mortgage is nice too.  I just sold a duplex last week for double the value estimated in 2010!

I suggest you take another non-politically biased look at how well you have done in the last 8 years.  If it still looks so dismal, maybe you need to move to an area where the economy is better.  Atlanta is booming, so is Charlotte and Nashville!

Oh, BTW, how do you think Trump's ''Russian reset'' will go.  Probably better than Obama's  since Trump thinks Putin is a great leader and a hero to be imulated!  PM Tony Blair was Bush's lap dog...Trump will have that position with Putin.