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Originally Posted by Schneed10
The stock market is irrational and reactionary on a day-to-day basis. But over the course of multiple years, no government policy can have any kind of prevailing effect. The data shows what the data shows my friend.
As for your note on the selective sampling used in those graphs you're right, any time you're looking at a 1-2 year period of stock market returns, you're not getting a large enough sample to conclude anything meaningful.
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We do agree that the stock market can be irrational and reactionary on a day-to-day basis. You don't think that the decisions over the past year or more to bail out the banks, car companies, etc... did not have a long term affect on the stock market?