businessman dances-rubyblossom-CC-FlickrEven if you don’t personally buy or own stocks, it is likely that someone in your family has a retirement or pension plan that has earned a lot of money in 2013 now that the global recession is behind us and stocks are at all-time highs.

The stock market wrapped up its best year since 1997, showering investors with an almost 30% gain in a record-breaking run that might finally have convinced investors scared off by the 2008 financial crisis that stocks remain a viable investment alternative.

 

(READ the full story from USA Today)

 

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