Here’s what your kindly old Uncle Jim says: Put all your eggs in one basket and forget about it. The great irony of investing is that the more you watch and fiddle with your holdings the less well you are likely to do. Fill your basket, add as much as you can along the way and ignore it the rest of the time. You’ll likely wake up rich. Here’s the basket: VTSAX. No surprise here if you’ve been paying attention so far. This is the Total Stock Market Index Fund that holds virtually every publicly traded company in the U.S. That means you’ll be owning a part of about 3,700 businesses across the
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