The old 10% over the long haul does not seem to be true anymore. I’m not interested in day trading, options, forex or other higher risk money vehicles. I’m more interested in stocks and bonds investing without a lot of trading going on.

There was an article on that on the internet just a couple of days ago. Investment gurus were polled and the consensus was about 2% after inflation at the most. Some–a small majority–stuck to the 10%. A few pessimists came in at zero. If the last 10 years is any indication, one is going to have to think outside the box, to get 2%. Let’s face it. There is every indication that the growth years are done and gone as a rule of thumb. The US economy appears pretty well headed the way the Roman empire went. The Roman empire had Nero. We had Bush and now Obama. The Roman empire had its senate and we have ours. A lot of parallels here.

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