nytimes.com - 4/27/2009
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HISTORICAL stock charts seem to show that it took more than 25 years for the market to recover from the 1929 crash a dismal statistic that has been brought to investors’ attention many times in the current downturn. But a careful analysis of the record shows that the picture is more complex ...
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NY Times details: Historical stock charts seem to show that it took more than 25 years for the market to recover from the 1929 crash — a dismal statistic that has been brought to investors’ attention many times in the current downturn. But a careful analysis of the record shows that the picture is more complex and, ultimately, far less daunting: An investor who invested a lump sum in the average stock at the market’s 1929 high would have been back to a break-even by late 1936 — less than four and a half years after the mid-1932 market low. How can ...
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Canadian Capitalist —
... Mark Hulbert debunks the myth that stocks took 25 years to bounce back from the 1929 crash. In real-terms and accounting for dividends, the total market hit the pre-crash high 4 1/2 years after hitting bottom in 1932. ...
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