{"id":109153,"date":"2026-05-01T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/the-numbers-dont-lie-if-i-had-invested-my-social-security-in-the-sp-500-id-have-4-million-is-the-system-broken\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:27:40","slug":"the-numbers-dont-lie-if-i-had-invested-my-social-security-in-the-sp-500-id-have-4-million-is-the-system-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/the-numbers-dont-lie-if-i-had-invested-my-social-security-in-the-sp-500-id-have-4-million-is-the-system-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The numbers don\u2019t lie\u2019: If I had invested my Social Security in the S&amp;P 500 I\u2019d have $4 million. Is the system broken?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.mktw.net\/im-06454902\" \/><br \/>\u201cI do better than many citizens because I\u2019ve contributed at the highest level.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/the-numbers-dont-lie-if-i-had-invested-my-social-security-in-the-s-p-500-id-have-4-million-is-the-system-broken-d41b1779?mod=mw_rss_topstories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI do better than many citizens because I\u2019ve contributed at the highest level.\u201d Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}