Longer is better for analyzing the stock market, which is why Professor Robert Shiller’s data set (with an 1871 starting date) is one of the great free resources on the internet for studying the history of US equities. With that in mind, let’s review how the current drawdown for the S&P 500 compares over the past century and a half.

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