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Professor Richard Sylla reflects on the Dow Jones Industrial Average's 120th birthday

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'The Dow is hardly a history of the U.S. economy. It is an index—unweighted—of the stock prices of a small number of America's largest corporations selected to represent the leading firms at particular times in our economic history,' explains Richard Sylla, a professor of economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business who studies the history of financial institutions."

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