8 stocks that could have made you rich

In a rocky market, keep this in mind: Some stocks go up, and some go way up. Here are 8 that rose from 600% to more than 8,000% during the economic downturn of the past few years.

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Apr 3, 2012 3:07PM
Apr 13, 2012 8:47AM
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Kinda like telling the gambler the results on the last 10 rolls of the dice on the craps table and saying, had you only bet those numbers, you would have made a lot of money. 
Interesting how diverse those companies are though.

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