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triceratopsyesterday at 10:44 PM1 replyview on HN

> To me it seems since the financial crisis 2008 investors don't enjoy stocks as before

Maybe in Europe. The US stock market has nearly tripled since then. Literally the best period of stock growth in history.


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jacquesmyesterday at 10:49 PM

"The Roaring Twenties roared loudest and longest on the New York Stock Exchange. Share prices rose to unprecedented heights. The Dow Jones Industrial Average increased six-fold from sixty-three in August 1921 to 381 in September 1929. After prices peaked, economist Irving Fisher proclaimed, "stock prices have reached 'what looks like a permanently high plateau.'"

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/stock-market-cr...

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