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How to cope when retirement plans collapse

My retirement account has lost forty percent of its value and I am fifty-eight years old, and I keep calculating the same numbers over and over hoping they will somehow change.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mathematical reality conflicts with psychological necessity, creating a loop of denial that prevents adaptive planning.

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