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Buy and Hold Isn't Dead Yet

If you put down $1 million in 1999 to buy S&P stocks and hold, you are much much much worst off than putting the $mil into real estate outside of Detroit. How's that a good thing?

For the Bears: 1991 Nikkei Redux

Such parallel has been told by many and these charts confirm their fear. However, unlike Nikki, S&P had its own lost decade before the great Oct 2007 to Mar 2009 crash.