Stocks for the Long Run Has a Survivor's Bias

The Wall Street Journal had an article saying well stocks for the long run has a lot of survivorship bias we really don't know you know there aren't a lot of great records from the 1800s yeah all we know are a handful of stocks that survived what about the hundreds of other stocks that went out of business. I'm updating it now to the first published in 2000 but I'm update it do you know that the United States was not the best from over the last 115 years and one country just shocks people out of their mind south Africa, he says.