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Investing Blog Roundup: What Happens to Spending Over Time?

The most common procedure when making financial projections is to simply assume that your spending will stay level (in inflation-adjusted terms) over time. But how likely is it that that will actually be the case? This week Christine Benz of Morningstar and Wade Pfau (writing for MarketWatch) each took a look at that question:

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