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In reply to the discussion: PBS Drops Another Bombshell: #WallStreet Is Gobbling Up Two-Thirds of Your 401(k) [View all]CountAllVotes
(22,021 posts)10. Some how not all all unbelievable
        Presently, 70 percent of Americans who have any kind of retirement plan at their place of employment have a 401(k) plan. Not everyone is paying 2 percent fees. Some are paying more and others are paying less  sometimes much less if using passively managed index funds. But, historically, Wall Street has preyed on the least informed and the least educated, which tends to be the poor and middle class. 
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Wall Street, Wall Street oh Wall Street.
They make so much and you get taxed on that when they do.
When you lose, well, you lose.
Over and over again this cycle repeats itself.
Those whose parents were teenagers and young adults during this time (c. 1930 ... ) cannot ever forget either. 
 
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                        PBS Drops Another Bombshell: #WallStreet Is Gobbling Up Two-Thirds of Your 401(k) [View all]
							Fire Walk With Me
							Apr 2013
							OP
                        
        
        Are you saying that the load the Morningstar (and others) report is not accurate?
        BlueStreak
        Apr 2013
        #6
      
        
        Agreed.  And if a 401k only offers only high-fee funds and has a high management fee
        progree
        Apr 2013
        #22
      
        
        VFIAX - VANGUARD = member-owned.  And Vgd S&P 500 fund has grown 42-fold since 1976 inception
        progree
        Apr 2013
        #29
      
        
        This is pure nonsense (broad-brushing).  My 401(k) was mostly invested in Vanguard index funds
        progree
        Apr 2013
        #11
      
        
        Not a bad idea for a chunk of your portfolio to be in such barterable things.
        AtheistCrusader
        Apr 2013
        #15