Now Kinninger thinks about all those lost years -- from babyhood to 4 years old -- critical years when Justin could have been receiving therapy for children with autism, but didn't.

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In 2008 nearly 4, 600 lost them, 20 times the previous years' average.

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According to data from Morningstar and Lipper , over the last three years growth funds have lost an average of 12.4% a year, while value funds lost only 0.54% a year.

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If the U.S. economy lost 4, 000 jobs in August to the first monthly decline in four years, economists expect to see a lot more layoffs across the many industries that are getting squeezed by the housing downturn.

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Ares Capital has earned investors a 10% annual return over the last 4.5 years with dividends reinvested, while American Capital has lost investors more than 20% over the same time period with dividends reinvested.

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And that employee that converted 60% of her 401k to gold saw her account more than double why everyone else lost more than half the value of their 401k in the last 3 almost 4 years.

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Meanwhile the number of mishandled bags--those lost, damaged, delayed or pilfered has nearly doubled over the past three years to more than 4 million incidents.

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We have lost 6 big pharma since 2000, and are likely to lose another 3 or 4 within the next few years.

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