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Re:U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022 by ptr on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:31PM (#34279657)
Nominal Swedish stock market return 1879-2012: 10.9% arithmetic mean, 9.0% geometric mean. Real return: 7.9%/6.1%. And Sweden isn’t really the world’s dominant superpower. https://www.riksbank.se/globalassets/media/forskning/monetar...
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Re:U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022 by jltsiren on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:40PM (#34280722)
Sweden, Switzerland, and the US are obvious outliers. Their economies have been abnormally stable, because they have not faced revolutions, civil wars, foreign occupations, and other forms of widespread destruction in a long time.
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Re:U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022 by ptr on Friday January 06, 2023 @07:54PM (#34283702)
I’m not sure that’s it. Sure, Norway was invaded but it was a pretty “benign” invasion in comparison to what happened to others. Same with Denmark. Would be interesting to see their stock market returns.
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