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The S&P 500 fell into correction territory and has since started to dig itself out of that hole. Here's why it's important to pay attention to Wall Street history

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The media has made a lot of the S&P 500 index's 2025 correction and the bear market that the Nasdaq Composite fell into.

The last bear market occurred during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 was mercifully short, largely because it was driven by governments shutting economies down to slow the spread of COVID-19 .

The Great Recession took several years to play out and it took several more years for the markets to fully recover.

Even the Great Recession and the dot-com bubble look like small blips along a steady upward path.

Corrections and bear markets are simply a part of investing, and they always have been.

If you stay the course and invest for the long term, even through really deep downturns, history suggests that you'll end up doing just fine.

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