"As market participants we all want more data, but once you understand where some of the data comes from you have to take it with a big grain of salt."

Stock market data today is abundant and mostly free. However data purporting to go back decade, if not centuries, has a lot of issues with. Ben Carlson, institutional asset management chief at Ritholtz Wealth Management does as much research as anybody using historical data. So he has a unique perspective on what weight we should put on historical data hen making investment decisions today.

You can read more about Ben's take on using long term data at his blog, A Wealth Of Common Sense:

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/03/real-estate-vs-the-stock-market/

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