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Legacy Stocks Prosper Through 44 years of Bull & Bear Markets!
NOVATO, Calif., March 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Every bull market
produces a lot of investment hype around buying the "hot stocks"
that eventually led investors off a financial cliff during the
next bear market.  During the 1970's, it was the "Nifty Fifty".
During the 1990's, it was the "New Economy" technology stocks.
During the 2000's, it was global investing in the "BRIC"
countries.  Today, it's about exotic exchange traded funds and
social networking stocks.  While all these investment themes
sound wonderful, the basic problem is that Wall Street's idea of
conducting "long-term" research to validate these theories
usually covered the previous 5 to 10 years.  While multi-decade
investment research can be a valuable investment tool, analyzing
history isn't as easy as it seems for two big reasons:   It's
difficult to retrieve investment data beyond 1980 using popular
financial data s