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The Ramsey Show Highlights

Thousands Of People Just Became Millionaires (Here’s How)

The Ramsey Show Highlights

Ramsey Network

Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today's episode features Dave Ramsey & George Kamel. The Ramsey Show Highlights is a quick, daily dose of advice on life and money in under ten minutes. Hear from experts like Dave Ramsey, Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, Dr. John Delony, George Kamel & Jade Warshaw. Part of the Ramsey Network. Delivered to you seven days a week. Learn more about your ad choices. https://www.megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

By the way, folks, Washington Post is reporting Fidelity. The Mutual Fund family is saying that 401k

0:11.6

Millionaire Club grew thanks to a stock market rally. George read over this. This is good.

0:17.9

This is pretty wild. So new data from Fidelity found the number of employees

0:21.6

with 401 balances over $1 million spiked 26% in the second quarter. So now there's 378,000 of

0:29.7

those accounts compared to under $300,000 by the end of 2022. And the average balance in these 401ks

0:35.8

was $1.5 million.

0:38.9

And here's the key.

0:40.2

They stuck to it.

0:41.7

These are people who contributed steadily to their plans, even when the stock market took a heart-clutching dive.

0:47.5

It says they've seen that payoff in their account balances.

0:50.1

And this is something that, you know, we've been preaching.

0:51.8

You've been preaching it for 30 years now.

0:53.4

But just stay on the roller coaster and you won't get hurt.

0:57.2

Well, and here's the thing.

0:58.4

You know, when the news reports that the stock market is up, never.

1:03.8

Did you guys know the stock market's up since the first of the year, 15%?

1:08.2

If you put in $10,000 or $5,000 or $1,500 million, whatever, at the first of the year,

1:14.3

you would have made 15% on your money in an S&P 500, which is a stock market index, right?

1:21.1

It's measuring the growth of the stock market and made 15% on your money.

1:26.2

But, you know, the news is inflation's 9.6%. There's supply chain

1:31.9

problems. And Hillary, the hurricane, not the woman, hit California. I mean, this is it.

1:38.9

That's a good caveat. Yeah, we need to be clear with no emails were deleted in this message.

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