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I made money in the stock market in the last two years. Not as much as if I bought the best stocks, but good enough.
I'm still not spending as much as I could, and the outlook for 2011 personally is trying to save even more money. Things like new cars or moving to a bigger house aren't important to me now. And I'm not sure if we will see any improvement in the housing sector in the areas that were hit hard by the speculators. I'm not sure if the home construction jobs will come back. And I don't believe that giving most people a few extra thousand dollars will change the economy, compared to the government paying down the debt and reducing spending with extra revenue coming in. If the US can't get foreign loans and runs out of money, all the lower tax rate stuff will be meaningless when the dollar loses it's value.
And I still think that there are plenty of meaningless jobs out there. Companies could trim back and still get the same amount of work done. But that won't change.
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