Big picture:
Although not nice to buy in 1929, nearly a 20yr wait to break even! I hope we are not in a similar place right now 
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Whenever looking at performance chart, it should have two things factored in:
- dividends reinvested (total return)
- inflation adjusted
And itâs also nice if itâs logarithmic. Your chart is missing the dividends (or both?).
This site has the right chart:
http://www.simplestockinvesting.com/SP500-historical-real-total-returns.htm
If you think 1929 was awful, what do can you say about 1968-1984? It wouldnât seem like such a bad period, but inflation was just terrible!
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Thanks. Do you have a preferred tool to check inflation rates?