The 1980s and 1990s bull market was an all-timer, perhaps the greatest of all-time for U.S. stocks.1
The S&P 500 was up nearly 18% per year for two decades straight.2
The bull market of the 2010s and 2020s hasn’t reached those heights but we’ve still seen above-average double-digit annual returns in both decades.
Here are the annual returns in each of the past five decades:
We’ve still got a few mor…