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Personal Finance and Investing

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1. better check the numbers again

Sat Aug 10, 2019, 01:14 PM

Aug 2019

The S&P was around 1,500 in 2000. It is now around 2,900, or about twice as much.
It got down to the 700s in 2009 after the market crash.

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