Are you serious? Look at any inflation adjusted chart of the US equities market and there are obviously multiple such periods. http://www.angelfire.com/or/trut

Are you serious? Look at any inflation adjusted chart of the US equities market and there are obviously multiple such periods. http://www.angelfire.com/or/truthfinder/index14.html http://www.angelfire.com/or/truthfinder/index14.html http://www.dogsofthedow.com/dow1925cpilog.htm http://www.dogsofthedow.com/dow1925cpilog.htm Furthermore, market history did not begin in 1910 in the United States. Stock markets go back hundreds of years in many countries. A global long-view perspective is worth a lot more than 90 years of US data. And from that perspective "stocks for the long haul" have very often been a bad idea.