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Global Financial Data
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Global Financial Data is the company blog at globalfinancialdata.com, writing about economics, history and data. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Global Financial Data provides institutional-grade historical financial market data spanning over 1,000 years, trusted by asset managers, researchers, and quantitative analysts worldwide.
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Though real estate has gone up on average for the last several decades, this has not always been true as you can see from historical data. [1] [2] [3] [1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwake/2019/03/30/new-study-o... "Old Real Estate Bubbles (1582-1810)" [2]: https://globalfinancialdata.com/seven-centuries-of-real-esta... "Seven Centuries of Real Estate Prices" [3]: https://observationsandnotes.blogspot.com/2011/…
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on “Why in the world would you own bonds?”Submitted The Piranha of Portugal: the Greatest Counterfeiter of All Time (2014) as a story · 109 points
HN discussion>BTW this is normal. Historically, negative real returns on stores of value were the norm. Before financial systems existed, almost all investments had negative returns if you didn’t put work and energy into them Citation needed? Government bonds historically paid something like 4%; here's the German government's from the 19th century, over a a time of low inflation and income taxes: https://qz.com/241890/the-comple…
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on “A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets”Submitted The Worst Hyperinflations in History: Hungary in 1946 (2014) as a story · 66 points
HN discussionHere's a source referencing the UK stock market: https://globalfinancialdata.com/stocks-for-the-very-long-run... "Between 1692 and 2018, stock prices increased at an average rate of 1.87% per annum before inflation and 0.36% after inflation, and with reinvested dividends averaging 5.04% per annum, investors received a total return of 6.62% per year. £1" Now, that being said, during this time frame, clearly the UK is…
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on “Ask HN: Is the stock market's growth largely anything more than inflation?”Submitted RCA and the Roaring Twenties as a story · 61 points
HN discussionIt's not perfect, but I don't think it's useless. Historical fundamental data are difficult to come by, the only public (not just internally used at a fund) source I know of is http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/Databases/USStocksDatabas... and it costs a lot. The vast majority of algorithmic equity trading uses just pricing though.
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on “Quantopian wants to Turn Stock Trading Algorithmic”Submitted The Worst Hyperinflations in History: Hungary as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 200 Years of US Stock Market Concentration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Berkshire Before Buffett (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 750 Years of Interest Rates (2019) as a story · 1 points
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