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I can hardly see anything.
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Well, what actually happened was businesses continued paying
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their dividends right through the whole Depression
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and some of them cut their dividends,
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but it was only for a few years.
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The present value of--the value of stock depends on
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what it pays out over decades
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not just next year.
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The stock market--if people knew the
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--even if they knew the depression was coming,
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they shouldn't have marked down the stock market so much,
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according to this simple efficient markets story