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by packet_nerd 2689 days ago
No.

John Bogle [1] claims that the long term annualized return from the stock market has averaged about 6.8%. The lowest 50 year period was 5.8%, and highest was 7.9%. As far as 10 year periods, the lowest was 2.3%, and highest was 11.5%.

But, these percentages are after adjusting for inflation, maybe before inflation would be closer to your "7-13%".

[1] Common sense on mutual funds, p16