The Dow-Decade of Perspective.

The folks at Chart Of The Day posted this last week.  The 2000s are the second worst decade of the Dow Jones Industrial's performance. 

According to Chart Of The Day "this chart presents the price performance of the Dow for each decade since 1900.....{T}he Dow from the close of 1999 through 2009 was the second worst performance on record. Only the Great Depression decade of the 1930s was worse. The current zeros decade also shares an unfortunate outcome with the 1930s in being a decade during which the Dow actually ended lower than where it started."

I'd note from looking at the chart above that the decades that followed the Great Depression {1940's & 1950's} turned out to be pretty good times to put money in stocks.  

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