Is this bull market really 9 years old?

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Market Watch
William Watts
Mar. 9, 2018

Is the bull market in stocks younger than it looks?

Investors and analysts are celebrating what’s widely recognized as the ninth anniversary of the start of the stock market’s current bull run on Friday. And why not? After all, it marks the bear market low set on March 9, 2009, as the world was reeling from the global financial crisis.

By that measure it is also one of the longest—and strongest—bull markets in history. But naysayers argue it isn’t really that ancient, a case that might cheer bulls not comforted by the adage that bull markets never simply die of old age.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-this-bull-market-really-9-years-old-2018-03-09

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Lately it's been looking a little raggedy.

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Market Watch
William Watts
Mar. 9, 2018

Is the bull market in stocks younger than it looks?

Investors and analysts are celebrating what’s widely recognized as the ninth anniversary of the start of the stock market’s current bull run on Friday. And why not? After all, it marks the bear market low set on March 9, 2009, as the world was reeling from the global financial crisis.

By that measure it is also one of the longest—and strongest—bull markets in history. But naysayers argue it isn’t really that ancient, a case that might cheer bulls not comforted by the adage that bull markets never simply die of old age.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-this-bull-market-really-9-years-old-2018-03-09

The Fed/Government has poured nearly a trillion freshly printed/borrowed dollars a year to keep it going. It has been smoke and mirrors for a decade at least. Normally that would cause massive inflation but that too, at least the government numbers, has been manipulated for a long time. Just bought some fillet mignon at Costo, $24 a pound...

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