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Re:The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun by arisAlexis on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:30AM (#29612814)
You are replying with a fixed period that confirms your claim while comment OP was talking about total returns which you can be sure are not zero. If you are handpicking periods you can find a month in the last 2 years that was negative and make a claim that the stock market didn't go up but it did, > 100%.
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Re:The mother of all crashes is coming and it won’t be fun by nabla9 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:37AM (#29613159)
Real Total return (inflation adjusted, dividends included) of SP500 has been negative in two decades. 1970s and 2000s.

The original claim is 10-20 years. That's a valid ballpark estimate. There can be lost decades, but when you get closer to 20 years, it has been all good.

ps. If you spread the entry into market into 5-10 years there has never been a decade of zero or negative returns (total, inflation adjusted).

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