姜小白对《The Psychology of Money》的笔记(1)

how the U.S. economy performed over the last 170 years

Here’s how the U.S. economy performed over the last 170 years:
“But do you know what happened during this period? Where do we begin ...
1.3 million Americans died while fighting nine major wars.
Roughly 99.9% of all companies that were created went out of business.
Four U.S. presidents were assassinated.
675,000 Americans died in a single year from a flu pandemic.
30 separate natural disasters killed at least 400 Americans each.
33 recessions lasted a cumulative 48 years.
The number of forecasters who predicted any of those recessions rounds to zero.
The stock market fell more than 10% from a recent high at least 102 times.
Stocks lost a third of their value at least 12 times.
Annual inflation exceeded 7% in 20 separate years.”