To me one of the best things about this sort of investing is a report from Credit Suisse over long term equity return as opposed to bonds and cash. https://www

To me one of the best things about this sort of investing is a report from Credit Suisse over long term equity return as opposed to bonds and cash. https://www.credit-suisse.com/investment_banking/doc/cs_global_investment_returns_yearbook.pdf https://www.credit-suisse.com/investment_banking/doc/cs_glob... It really gets interesting on page 37, if you want a read. It is of course, backwards looking, over the last hundred years, so it's (as with most macroeconomic stuff) not really scientific, but it at least gives a explanation of the relative power of long-term economic growth over short-term speculation. tldr; I think stocks are more powerful than you think.