Jupiter's Pidcock: Powerful bull markets are born in difficult times

Powering on like it's 1982

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The bull market of 1982-1987 was the first I lived through. This sweet bull market, when the Dow Jones delivered 337% from mid-August 1982 to late August 1987, has been compared to that of the 1920s, which occurred in the decade following WWI and the Spanish flu.

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