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Re:Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in a... by jjoonathan on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:44AM (#21585494)
100 years isn't really "these days," though.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in a... by NightlyDev on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:12AM (#21594140)
Not sure what that is supposed to mean. It's ~9 % the last ~5 years.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in a... by ac29 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:59PM (#21597972)
But only ~4% over the last 20 [0]. If you cherry pick start and end dates, you can make stock market returns look as good or bad as you'd like.

[0] https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...

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