If someone bought at the 2008 market peak and held until the time of this video, how much would they be up?

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19 May 2023 · 1 min

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Ryan Daniel Moran (speaking in a Capitalism.com YouTube video) reflects on investing and entrepreneurship. He notes that someone who bought at the 2008 market peak and held until today would be up roughly 2.5x, uses that to critique pessimism and hedging against negative scenarios, and frames entrepreneurship as planning for positive creation rather than protection against fear.

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Approximately 2.5x (two and a half times).

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If you had invested at the peak of the market in 2008, before the crash, the peak, the worst day to buy ever, but you had held for this entire time, you'd be up 2 1/2 x. That was literally the worst time to buy stocks ever in history. Believing negativity and believing people who said the world's going to end or that we're going to have a big recession coming is the most expensive lesson of my life. Because when you're hedging for what could happen, you're not planning for the positive side of what you can create. And that's actually what entrepreneurship is creating what it is that you want to happen.