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OCTOBER 10, 2011 Stock Market's Lost Decade Paid 91 Cents on the Dollar A $1 investment in the S&P 500 Index at the beginning of 2000 was worth just 91 cents 10 years later after "the worst decade in stock market history," writes Charles P. Jones of North Carolina State University in the Journal of Investing. What made the Lost Decade so bad wasn't just the 2008 crash but also the dismal years 2000-2002. In order to earn an overall 7% return on stocks for the first 40 years of the twenty-first century, an investor would have to earn an average 10% return from now through the next three decades, Jones writes. Source: Can Recent Long-Term Investors Recover from Their 2000–2009 Stock Losses?