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    Investors who conquer stock-phobia have an edge over those too focused on their rearview mirror By Jason Zweig 2025: Oct. 4, 2008 12:01 am ET During the Great…

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    2000: Those with enterprise haven't the money, and those with money haven't the enterprise, to buy stocks when they are cheap.

    –Benjamin Graham, Inflated Treasuries and Deflated Stockholders: Are Corporations Milking Their Owners? Forbes, June 1, 1932.
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Jason is the author of “Your Money and Your Brain,” on the neuroscience of investing, and the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor,” the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as “by far the best book about investing ever written.”

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1980: The total market value of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange surpasses $1 trillion for the first time.

"Today in NYSE History," at www.nyse.com/about/TodayInNYSE.html

1977: The Vanguard Group of Investment Companies eliminates all sales charges, becoming a no-load fund family. "The funds had been losing share of market in a dealer network that was itself in shambles," explains chairman John C. Bogle.

John C. Bogle, Vanguard: The First Century (The Newcomen Society, New York, 1992), p. 19;John C. Bogle interview with Jason Zweig, July 20, 1995.

1971: After nearly a decade of preparation, the NASDAQ market opens for stock trading, as the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation system first displays the median price for more than 2,500 "over-the-counter" securities. The NASDAQ Composite Index is set at an initial value of 100.