QOTD
"In nearly 200 years of recorded stock-market history, no calendar decade has seen such a dismal performance as the 2000s."
- WSJ today, source
If that weren't enough the WSJ kindly provides fancy graphics to visually display the investing carnage of the 2000's:

Worst Decade Ever

OK, I snarfed two of the charts for you (and perpetuity)... this first one is annual rate of return for each decade since flipping 1830. Crap.



The second killer graph add the poison of inflation to the mix. Barf.


Well, we were there. I guess that's saying something.
Also, I hope the 2010's are better. I hope we're not Japan. I hope... oh, never mind.

Let's cheer up with an excellent picture of Sarah Palin.
dreamy... yow, bill

PS - Addendum... hate to wreck the Sarah buzz, but here's Faber's (Ivy Portfolio guy) comparison between the US and Japan. Gulp.

Japan, The US, and Lost Decades

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