For many people, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is the measure of the health of the overall stock market.

In reality, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is really just the performance of a collection of 30 blue chip stocks.

The index was created in 1896 and back then there were

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and what happened to them over the last 125 years on this episode of

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