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Why Equities Are Actually SO Popular In Trading


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00:00:00.000 | a few reasons that people feel comfortable with equities.
00:00:02.300 | One is that there is a long historical record
00:00:05.720 | of them doing well.
00:00:07.580 | And it's not just, oh, in the US over the last 40 years,
00:00:11.220 | it's had a good return.
00:00:12.460 | There was a study by this group of economists.
00:00:14.940 | They wrote this book called "Triumph of the Optimists."
00:00:17.660 | And they did this huge study over 20 countries,
00:00:21.700 | over 100 years of history.
00:00:23.900 | And they found over the 100 years,
00:00:26.140 | on average global equities beat inflation by 5%.