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Should I Pay Off My Mortgage or Invest in Stocks?

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The Stock Market and the War Years

The stock market has a very counterintuitive relationship with war and geopolitical conflict over the years. During World War I, the Dow was up 43% around 9% total, or annually,. Same thing, World War II. By 1973, when we pulled the last troops out, the stock market was up 5% per year through Vietnam. The day after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1960, Stocks finished up 15%. What possible reason would that be?

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