[expat_panama]

Before the recession growth going back to 1950 averaged 7% yearly.  The past seven years stock investments have grown yearly at just one percent.

That's in inflated dollars; here's real market cap growth:

Apparently there's either a lot more to this than meets the eye or a lot less to this than meets the eye.  Let me know if you want the numbers but it seems the last real $ dip was '89 - '97 and it was about the same % drop scale as the current one that began seven  years ago.  Somehow I don't remember the early '90's as being so bad....

[expat_panama]

hmmm. Total real market cap. was steady thru both the stagflation chaos and the dot.ocm bust. Where we actually saw hits began in ‘88 and ‘08 —right after the S&L mess and the sub-prime crash. Market cap. dips went both times w/ serious asset crashes....