Ben Carlson

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1,555 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 Jun

Ben Carlson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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That one is really scary.

The numbers are just insane.

There are still records from back then in terms of down months and down days and down years that just will probably never be seen again.

It's funny.

I show one of my favorite stats in the book is I look at historical rolling monthly 30-year returns on the S&P 500.

And the worst 30-year return came if you invested at the peak in September of 1929, which is actually was better than you would think.

It was like a total return of 850% and annual returns of almost 8% per year.

So that's the worst 30-year return in the last 100 years or so.

And then what happened afterwards after you had that huge crash and stocks fell 85% or whatever,

Then you had the best 30-year return.

And it was, I don't know, 15% or 16% per year.

And so you went from worst to best in three years.

And I looked at some of the numbers too.

What if we just took the Great Depression completely out of the US stock market history?

The stock market has given investors roughly 10% per year for 100 years.

Let's just take that situation out and start it a few years later.

I think the returns go to like 11% or something.

That's a lot for compounding wise, but it's not like it completely changed the ballgame considerably, considering it was such a huge, huge crash.

The thing that happens after the crash is that like your returns improve.

The expected returns are higher after you go through the crash.

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