Let's rewind for a second back to March 2009. The markets were tanking, folks were worried about liquidity at banks, and it seemed like just about everyone was asking for a bailout. There was blood in the streets.
If someone would have said back then that the market would rally 350% -- including dividends -- over the next eight-plus years, they would have been laughed out of the room. And yet, that's exactly what happened.
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