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RetiredSaintsLsuFan
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Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?

I have lost 15% due to this old fart. I am thinking if he is reelected I will draw my retirement funds and put them in CD's, Money Market and Banks to keep from losing more.

Am I crazy for thinking about doing this? I know I will have to pay penalties and taxes on this, but how much of a hit will that be? If it makes any difference my wife and I are both retired.


whiskey over ice
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
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If it makes any difference my wife and I are both retired.


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RetiredSaintsLsuFan


Name checks out


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PhiTiger1764
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
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I have lost 15% due to this old fart

Honestly, how is this possible? What did you do?


Sir Saint
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
SP500 is up almost 20% since Jan 2020 when Biden took office. Since you're retired, I'm guessing you might have a lot of money in bond funds, many of which have declined in price d/t rising interest rates, but yields are up. If you sell out of bond funds now you're possibly selling at/near the bottom since rate increases (hopefully) are tapering off soon.


UpstairsComputer
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Honestly, how is this possible? What did you do?



One can only assume he's either bad at math, took way too much risk, or sold the low.


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Weekend Warrior79
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
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I know I will have to pay penalties

If it makes any difference my wife and I are both retired.

Unless you retired in your 40s, you most likely won't have penalties for early withdrawal. However, you most likely will be paying at the top tax bracket for a large portion of your withdrawal (which I suppose can be viewed as a penalty). This will be an extreme emotional knee jerk reaction, and chances are you will lose more than the 15% you think you may be down.


UpstairsComputer
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
And you likely can do CD's, money markets, etc. inside your IRA's if you insist on doing this - without taxes.


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SM1010
Florida Fan
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
Yes you are crazy for over politicizing this. S&P will likely be back to all time highs in the next 6 months to a year.

My parents mortgaged their house and dumped it into the market after "Bush crashed the market (rolls eyes)" in 2008. They've tripled to quadrupled their investment at this point.

Stop letting political bias influence your financial decision making.


tigersmanager
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
politics do effect money decisions when you have idiot democrats running the country


SM1010
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
Take your money out of the market like OP then. I'll keep mine in, despite dementia Joe. We'll see who comes out ahead.


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MrJimBeam
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Take your money out of the market like OP then. I'll keep mine in, despite dementia Joe. We'll see who comes out ahead.



I'm with you on this.


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slackster
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politics do effect money decisions when you have idiot democrats running the country


In the long run, maybe so, but there are so many other factors that override politics of any one regime. Shit, if you avoided stocks during Obama’s tenure you missed out on tripling your money.


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LSUFanHouston
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Member since Jul 2009
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
Yes. Taking all the money out at once will cause your marginal rate to skyrocket.

If you are spooked by the market, just invest they money in your IRA into CDs, etc.

It's not what I would do, but it's better than paying a bunch of unnecessary taxes.


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Shepherd88
Member since Dec 2013
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politics do effect money decisions when you have idiot democrats running the country


I voted for Trump too but he is the one who shut down the economy and gave out free stimmy checks. Just saying let’s be fair here (which is a majority of the reason we are in this mess today). Obama made everyone a fortune in the markets too.

And again, this is coming from a traditional conservative.


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meansonny
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
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SP500 is up almost 20% since Jan 2020 when Biden took office.


Biden wasn't even elected to office until 11/2020.
He took office 1/20/21.

Most accounts took a huge loss in January 2022 fwiw.


Sir Saint
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
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Biden wasn't even elected to office until 11/2020.
He took office 1/20/21.


good catch - brain fart on my part. 2nd half of my post still stands though. I bet OP does not understand the bond funds that he is likely holding.


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RetiredSaintsLsuFan
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NW Arkansas
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
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Most accounts took a huge loss in January 2022 fwiw.


This is when I had my biggest loss. What caused this?


UpstairsComputer
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Member since Jan 2017
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This is when I had my biggest loss. What caused this?


The Fed gave clarity on the timing of when they were going to start a rate hiking cycle in conjunction with an end of quantitative easing and a shift towards quantitative tightening.

Let's Go Brandon, but this is on the Fed. As others have pointed out, Biden actually just kept pressing with Trump's policies - giving out free money - because that's what makes uninformed voters happy.


Sir Saint
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The Fed gave clarity on the timing of when they were going to start a rate hiking cycle in conjunction with an end of quantitative easing and a shift towards quantitative tightening.


Yep. The trillions of printed money came home to roost when inflation exceeded 7% and the Fed was forced to act.


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fallguy_1978
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re: Bidenomics and Retirement Funds?
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Biden wasn't even elected to office until 11/2020.
He took office 1/20/21.

Most accounts took a huge loss in January 2022 fwiw.

The S&P is in the same spot it was 2 years ago. 4450 in 9/21.


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