Quote Originally Posted by GGT View Post
When people can truly "save" for retirement (compound interest on deposits), without being forced to gamble in the rigged Wall Street/Finance lottery just to keep up with inflation.
The stock market is not a lottery but there is no convincing you of that is there? No amount of empirical evidence that most long term investors enjoy terrific returns on their investments will convince you will it?

That being said bonds can be used to save for retirement and they would typically have a higher return then inflation. Of course your long term returns will be smaller then stocks but hey if you dislike the idea of having partial ownership of companies this might be a better route for you.

I'm a big fan of having a lower inflation rate then 3% as well but that really is a seperate discussion.