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Recovering from the Great Depression: Even those who bet on America right before the Great Depression would have made their money back eventually. CircleBlack said those who sank $1,000 in the S&P 500 at the start of 1929 and then put $1,000 in every year after (a common scenario for people putting money regularly into their retirement account) got back to breakeven within seven years.

That’s obviously an extreme example. During less scary market meltdowns like in the 1970s, the recovery time was far less.

“These results suggest that for investors with a long time horizon, the downside of even a worst-case scenario isn’t that dire,” Adam Freeman, chief investment officer at CircleBlack, wrote in a recent report.

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