Why Does the Stock Market Crash? | Stocks 101 Explained, with Brian Feroldi
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The Returns of the Stock Market Over Long Periods
When i first started investing, one of the things that i had always heard about the stock market was, yes, it was volatile. But if you look at the long term returns of the market and measure over the appropriate time period, the returns are actually pretty darned consistent. If you buy and hold the s n p 500 for 20 years, you have made money in real terms 100 % of the time. Said differently, there's never been a 20 year period in us where you lost money if you bought and held it for 20 years.
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