US stock market prices growth and recessions since 1900

Overall, the long term trend in stock market prices has been unaffected by recessions.

Grey bands represent recessions

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Y-axis is a log scale. Stock price is the composite index.
S&P500 from Robert Shiller, US recessions from Federal Reserve Economic Data

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