Clay Shirky, author, professor and media & technology enthusiast, recently posted a graphic on Boingboing visualizing where 2008 YTD S&P returns fall in historical context. His conclusion: the distribution of S&P returns is “a rough bell curve, with 45 of those 185 years [between 1825 to 2008] falling in the +0-10% column. There are only [...]
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