What Investing $100 a Month in QQQ Could Really Become After 20 Years
I have always found it amusing how differently people treat $100 depending on where it appears. Put $100 on a restaurant bill and it disappears beneath appetizers, drinks, and a tip. Spend it online and a cardboard box arrives two days later carrying something I apparently could not live without, despite having lived without it perfectly well for several decades. Let it quietly leak into subscriptions, delivery fees, and impulse purchases, and it can vanish every month without receiving so much as a farewell ceremony. Suggest investing that same $100, however, and suddenly it becomes precious. Now it is too much money. Now the budget is under investigation. Now every unexpected expense from the previous six months is called as a witness. People who regularly pay $7 for coffee begin explaining that financial markets are unpredictable. They are right about the unpredictability, of course. They are simply deploying that concern at a remarkably convenient moment. A recent Motley Fool artic...
