http://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart http://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historica... From about 1965 to 1982, th

http://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historical-chart http://www.macrotrends.net/1319/dow-jones-100-year-historica... From about 1965 to 1982, the market had basically 0% return. There were no big crashes (except for 1973), but the market simply "petered out" for about 20 years. On an inflation-adjusted basis, someone who started investing in 1965 wouldn't have broken even until 1995.