Nice thirty year chart showing the net change in interest rates, via the 30-year treasury bond.
Given the high (inverse) correlation between interest rates and stock prices, the 1982 to 2000 bull market is much less about productivity, ideology, or deficit reduction — it was about falling interest rates, plain & simple.
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30 Year Treasury Bond, 1979 – 2009
via Yahoo! Finance
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Hat tip Paul
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