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Well. Sharebuilder has no minimum deposits or balances required.

Maybe through $50 a month in there. If you don't want to learn the markets then try no fee mutual funds they offer. Then consider municipal bond funds if your state offers it and then maybe corporate bond funds since they offer higher return than bank accounts. Also investing in index etf stocks is somewhat reliable as long as the entire economy improves. If you are up to doing research then consider doing stocks of businesses and no etf pools.

Though keep in mind for everything I suggested you could lose money, but that is how the stock market works.

Oh and to people who say those Chinese GDP is an illusion, then care to explain their export numbers? Their employment numbers? The fact that all the major US tech companies outsource to them in some fashion.

And you care to compare that to what they were 30 years ago?

State Capitalism transformed China from a backwater hellhole into a modern state it is today. You can just look at the pictures of Shanghai 30 years ago to see the transformation.

Free market capitalism could not have achieved this in such a short period of time.