I happened to be tinkering with a free illustration program, and made a chart for somewhere else. Anyways, I thought it'd be fun to share it here as well:
And by the way, it's just making a very basic point that it's important to have a stated goal first, because your goals are what determines the best type of saving and investment bucket to use for that goal.
Also, please realize that it's just a simple example, not in any way set in stone or is entirely accurate. For example, I'm not really using a Roth IRA entirely to fund a house, although part of the money can and will probably come from that....
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I saw that chart before but don't remember which book I saw it in.
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