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3 Another study , covering the period 1983-2006 utilizing the Russell 3000 Index, achieved similar and consistent results. If you had invested $10,000 in Amazon at its IPO price ($18) in 1997, you would have purchased 555 shares, not counting commission expenses or fractional shares. But let’s suppose for a moment that you could.

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And so I think, you know, not to say you couldn’t do it when there’s zero, but I just think it’s a lot harder to make the math work. And that does encapsulate Morningstar’s investment philosophy and certainly they commissioned the book or, or funded it, I would say.

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And so he set me off in a direction that was practical and at that point, commission business that he generated was ginormous, I’m sure. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. But if you go back to 2006 point half percent sounds high. So at that point, I had a pretty big career.

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And so I would see how the over-the-counter desk, over-the-counter stock desk would push stocks and encourage brokers to sell them, put a lot of commission in them, to move them because some big seller was coming into the market. And this was back in 2005 or 2006. RITHOLTZ: Right. And so, you know where you stand.

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