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Inflation adjusted graph here seems to suggest that the stock market isn't really higher than since 2008: https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Adjusted

Inflation adjusted graph here seems to suggest that the stock market isn't really higher than since 2008: https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Adjusted_Stock_Price/NYSE_Inflation_adjusted_stock_price.asp https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Adjusted_Stock...

dagoat 8y ago
Following the link: I find it odd that his google plus pic is of him wearing a tux, with what looks to be a pile of money on fire above him.
- chrischen 8y ago
  I don't see that, but then I also just linked the first google result.
  - dagoat 8y ago
    It's on the side. It's also the same on his fb page, which is also on the side
sdinsn 8y ago
That's for the index, it doesn't count dividends. The majority of gains from holding a S&P500 fund over a long period are from dividends compounding.
throwaway9d0291 8y ago
A substantial part of the difference he's pointing out just comes from using the NYA index instead of the S&P 500. Between the 2007 peak and the end of 2017 when he published this, his NYSE index gained only 20% (https://goo.gl/bWuBvQ https://goo.gl/bWuBvQ), while the S&P 500 index, which is what people actually use and invest in (http://etfdb.com/compare/market-cap/ http://etfdb.com/compare/market-cap/), is up more like 70% (https://goo.gl/pFZW9X https://goo.gl/pFZW9X). Inflation may have had an impact on his specially chosen index but the index most people use to invest is certainly worth a lot more than it was in 2008.