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		groundlogic on Sept 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs That has never happened (as far as I know, in modern history). Of course that's not a reason it can't happen, but I feel like you owe us at least a plausible decade downturn scenario.

nostromo on Sept 4, 2019 [–]

It has happened for specific stretches of time.

For example, if you bought near the top in 2000, you were still underwater a decade later.

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