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If we're allowed to cherry pick years, now do gold https://sprott.com/media/3783/fig1-jh-gold-perf.png https://sprott.com/media/3783/fig1-jh-gold-perf.png

• onlyrealcuzzo 1y ago
  The cool thing about about something with a consistently high return and a long-horizon (going back 100 years) - you're still getting a high return. It's about ~6% CAGR vs ~8% if you picked the absolute best vs absolute worst time around the Great Depression. If you include re-investing dividends, it's about ~8% vs ~10%. You're not getting anywhere near that with gold over any sufficiently long non-cherry picked time horizon. The even better thing about the S&P is it has relatively low volatility. You're really unlikely to put all your eggs in the S&P at the absolute worst timing. Sure, it's possible. Not likely.
• throw0101c 1y ago
  Heres a site with a slider where you can pick arbitrary start and end times: * https://www.macrotrends.net/2608/gold-price-vs-stock-market-100-year-chart https://www.macrotrends.net/2608/gold-price-vs-stock-market-...