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At long last, the boomers begin to retire

Five-year rally restores $14 trillion to U.S. equity values, helping push participation rate of working Americans to 40-year lows.

Dee Dix hesitated before she decided to retire in 2012.
“I thought, do we have enough money? How much do we need?” the 66-year-old former insurance analyst said from her home in Fort Myers, Fla. “I was a little bit leery.”
Clinching the decision was profit earned on stock inv

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