You've heard of the Great Depression, no doubt. That was the low point of the stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow hit its all-time low of $42.84 on April 1, 1932. Since then, with a lot of fits and starts and slumps, it has still climbed pretty steadily to its current value of more than $10,000.
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