Keep Crashes in Perspective

As a stock investor, it’s hard to watch massive daily drops in the Dow and other benchmarks. They affect every single one of us with money parked in investments.

However, just for a little perspective, take a look at two charts.

The first chart shows you what the Crash of 1987 looked like during the hammering. As you can see, it was certainly NOT fun to be in the middle of it …

Now, here’s the same crash, five years later …

It took the Dow about two years to get back to its pre-crash level … and another couple years to move much higher.

Regardless, a new foundation was laid.

Take one last look at that chart. Did you notice the scale? Back then, just twenty years ago, the Dow was around 2500! And at the bottom of the crash, it was closer to 1700!

That puts the recent 778-point drop to 10,365 into perspective a little bit, doesn’t it?

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