Has the Nasdaq Really Recovered? Daily close of the Nasdaq Composite Index (nominal and inflation-adiusted)
Stocks have been the most robust component of the nation’s up-to-recently spotty recovery from the Great Recession. Broad indices such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 have long since surpassed their pre-crash highs. Even the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite, which plunged during the dot-com bust and remained depressed for years afterward, is close to the all-time high it set back in March 2000.
Has the Nasdaq Really Recovered?  | Daily close of the Nasdaq Composite Index (nominal and inflation-adiusted)  | 8 000  | March 10 2000  | 7 000  | Inflation-adjusted: 6,948. .75  | March 13 2015  | Nominal: 5. .048 .62  | 6 000  | 4,871.76  | 4.871.76  | 5 000  | 4 000  | 3 000  | 2, 000  | 1, 000  | Recession  | Recession  | '95 96 '97 '98 '99 I'00 '001 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 107 'O8 09 10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15  | Source: Yahoo Finance, Pew Research Center calculations  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 