Market Madness: How the S&P made its 10-year comeback

The 2010s were a relatively soothing whitewater rapid ride for stock investors, considering all the pain caused in the century’s first decade by the Great Recession. Stockholders were cheered by a U.S. economy that emerged from the steep downturn to create the longest-running expansion of a business cycle on record. Bottom line: The widely watched S&P 500 stock index almost tripled in value in the 2010s after Wall Street’s worst decade since World War II.
A tale of two decadesTh