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  "id": 16459836,
  "title": "History Shows 1 Powerful Fact That Makes Me Bullish on VTI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/history-shows-1-powerful-fact-that-makes-me-bullish-on-vti",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-25T09:51:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Motley Fool",
    "slug": "motley-fool",
    "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/10/25/history-shows-1-powerful-fact-that-makes-me-bullis/?source=iedfolrf0000001"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "For the past 25 years, the Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) has shown an average annual return of 9.44%. This impressive performance, even during major stock market crashes like the 2008 global financial crisis and the Great Recession of the dot-com bubble, highlights the power of long-term investing. By consistently investing in VTI, everyday investors could have built significant wealth, including a $1,000 investment growing to $325,555 today. While VTI may underperform some large-cap indexes at times, its broad diversification of U.S. stocks makes it a low-cost, simple way to bet on the future of America's economy. Despite no guarantee of future performance, the long-term track record of VTI suggests it could help investors build substantial wealth through steady, consistent investments.",
  "summary": "Investing in just this one exchange-traded fund (ETF) for the past 25 years could have set you up for serious financial security.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Nasdaq Markets",
        "title": "History Shows 1 Powerful Fact That Makes Me Bullish on VTI",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/history-shows-1-powerful-fact-that-makes-me-bullish-on-vti-16467646",
        "published": "2026-10-25T10:11:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}