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While there have been other financial crises, stock market crashes, and recessions the current one feels scary because we are experiencing it now. So much is going wrong and many of us have never seen anything like this in our lifetimes. We will briefly review where we are relative to history, and in that context, how it might help us plan and invest for the future. As far as recessions go, the Great Depression was the worst of the recent past but not the worst ever. There were at least three depressions in the 1800 s that lasted in excess of five years, compared to the Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted 43 months. In those months unemployment reached 25 percent and GDP (a broad measure of the growth of the economy) actually declined by that amount. There is now a lot of talk suggesting we may be in another Great Depression. In a recent New York Times article entitled adidas superstar 2 dame , Expect the Worst and You May Get It Yale economics professor Robert Shiller says, 锟絫he Great Depression itself was partly driven by the retelling of earlier depression stories. The depressions of the 1870 s and the 1890 s were particularly long and grueling. His main point was that The Depression narrative could easily end up as a self fulfilling prophecy. As they made their way through the Haunted Forest, the fears that Dorothy, Tin Man and Scarecrow felt were much greater than the reality of actually meeting the Lion. Just what is the difference between a recession and a depression? According to The Economist there is no widely accepted definition of a depression. However, The Economist suggests two principal criteria for distinguishing a depression from a recession: a decline in real GDP that exceeds 10 percent, or a recession that lasts more than three years. According to a recent study, the causes of the downturn also matter. A depression is the result of bursting asset and credit bubbles, a contraction in credit and a decline in the general price level. By these measures, only the general decline in price level, or deflation, has not occurred. Deflation, in my opinion adidas superstar sko tilbud , is the more unruly problem and the actions of the Federal Reserve in conjunction with the stimulus package are designed to address the issue. If it is any consolation, I have not seen any predictions of outright depression and it is my best guess that our current recession could extend to early 2010, which would put its duration in excess of 26 months. What about the history of stock market declines? From the peak in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1929 to its bottom in 1932, the average declined almost 90 percent. Since its peak in October of 2007 the S& P 500 (a broader reflection of US stocks) is down about 55 percent as of the first week of March. In Japan the real estate bubble burst in 1989. Their stock market declined about 60 percent in the two years following. It has not yet returned to its highs, but instead is still below where it was 24 years ago. Ouch! I truly believe that the events of the last year will profoundly alter the way we save, invest, and plan for the future. We have witnessed cataclysmic moves in the markets (a euphemism for loss of wealth) and the overnight disappearance of businesses. We all know someone recently unemployed. People can t help but be impacted psychologically by such events. The fallout from these times will be felt for years to come, just as the Depression deeply affected the previous generation. So what are we to make of all this? There are three major takeaways. First, there are many instances of crisis, crashes and recessions. They all have their own unique characteristics and occurred at unique points in history. The financial innovations, human behavior and causal events are different each time. This limits comparability. Thus the outcomes of the present situation and the time required to repair the damage will not likely be predictable. Second, while things seem bad now adidas originals superstar norge , from a historical perspective, times have been much more difficult. Third, the biggest concern is how should we invest for the future, given what we know today? Most of us have been told to live by the mantra of the long term investor. Don t try to time the market; buying and holding quality investments is one of our best bets to grow assets over time. The historical data suggests that stocks should return about 10 percent per year on average. The reality of investing is that we seldom see that average, or trend line. Stock returns vary wildly from year to year. A highly respected finance author, Peter Bernstein, wrote recently in the Financial Times, Relying on the long run for investment decisions is essentially relying on trend lines. But how certain can we be that trends are destiny? Trends bend. Trends break. Today in fact, we have no idea where any trend lines might begin, or end, or whether any trend lines still exist. It is quite possible that in the working and saving portion of our lifetimes we may not see the returns on stocks that we anticipated when we b.
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