Investors' anxiety builds as retirement nest eggs show cracks - The Boston Globe

An interesting article showing the strain on the "do it on your own" retirement system we have in the United States. The key question now is do you "take advantage" of this huge dip and continue buying or do you pull back? It appears, in the aggregate, the US Investor is pulling back in a big way (Net flows were actually negative in April and far less in May than January / February).

Of course this flies in the face of the "buy low / sell high" basic Mantra of investing. In my mind, unless you think you need the money right now, this is precisely the time to be investing in a big way; of course, only through good Total Stock Index funds.

Read: Investors' anxiety builds as retirement nest eggs show cracks - The Boston Globe.