# Stock market questions:

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-questions/663257>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 11, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-questions/663257 "2013-07-11T21:23:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![deltasigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@deltasigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deltasigma)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stock-market-questions/663257/11 "2013-07-12T17:15:41Z")

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The original question was comparing historical stock market performance not the performance of individual equities and that’s what I was addressing. If I have to actually qualify everything I say because people are too stupid to understand the context, that’s not my problem.

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