The Death of Equities, Revisited

The Death of Equities, Revisited

By Steve Beaman In August 1979, BusinessWeek published a cover story that declared “The Death of Equities.” The headline captured the sentiment of the malaise endured during the 1970’s. After a decade of inflation, stagnant growth, and rising interest rates, the Dow had gone nowhere in nominal terms—and backward in real ones. Americans were turning […] The post Opinion | The Death of Equities, Revisited appeared first on Florida Daily.