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In addition to what others have said about 5% being hard to achieve conservatively, you have to factor in inflation if you want your principal to remain intact
by gpjt 13y ago
In addition to what others have said about 5% being hard to achieve conservatively, you have to factor in inflation if you want your principal to remain intact in a meaningful sense. Let's call inflation 3% (it's lower now but there's no obvious reason to assume that'll continue) and you're down to 100k annually in real (inflation-adjusted) terms.