It looks like you've excluded the S&P dividends from this analysis, which of included would likely show that the S&P beat gold by because of compounding.
Thank you, Jay! Great question. Dividends do make a difference, but not by much—9.6% versus 8.3% over one year, 166% vs. 153% over five years, and so on. Here’s a link to the total return version of the index so you can see for yourself:
Compelling. I think I'll buy another 5 baht of gold tomorrow. And take possession instead of leaving it with the very established retail gold agent here.
A top analysis .. if that doesn’t put reality into perspective I don’t know what ever will… the real issue is we have been assailed, nay assaulted with a trope and incessant narrative that Gold is of no value as an investment, it’s a mantra we have been told time and time again, almost pathologically in order to “steer” and “skew” our thinking away from the Worlds oldest known real money, steering us into the funny money, the fanciful, the unreal, pretend, contrived,made up stuff, anything but real… sure using puts, options, derivatives and every other conceived of financial instrument an individual can become an outlier and make many, many times more money than would ordinarily seem possible with just real and timeless money.. gold, but every second you are in that zone, the funny money exposure you are at risk of loss, big loss.
The market is rigged, it’s not a true representation of reality, big players led the central banks and in the case of the U.S Fed Reserve dominate the market, placing buy/sells all in order to steady the great ship, the Stock Market..
Personally having invested in gold since the late 1990’s and the stock market over the same period, cashing out all of my Stocks save now only a bunch of ETF trades, doing so back in January I have no desire to go back in, good lord, even the treasuries market is manipulated, just as the Metals markets are … however, through it all, metals real tangibles and commodities I say will prove their true resilience, real, no counter party risks, just solid investments, seems the wheels are about to fall off the biggest market manipulation in history, when it comes, watch the worlds oldest, purest money take on a life form of its own, inheriting again its rightful place, both in terms of value and in terms of use and recognition as real money, the only other Tier 1 fiscal asset alongside the manipulated Treasuries to have that privilege bestowed, the genie is all but out of the bottle metaphorically speaking, once completely out, it won’t be going back into the bottle from whence it has come all that easily… nor readily, to many now understanding and realising just what it is Gold, Silver, Copper other precious metals alongside commodities actually represent in this world of make believe we live in… thus the clamour and demand for real is only going to intensify… as it should, best of all, it’s all predicate solid, rock solid fundamentals and your analysis has assisted in reinforcing the age old benefit of owning and possessing real money.. just saying
It looks like you've excluded the S&P dividends from this analysis, which of included would likely show that the S&P beat gold by because of compounding.
Nope. See my response to Jay below.
Nobody likes to analyze 1980 till 2000 😂
I enjoyed this essay. Would the conclusions be different if S&P 500 dividends are taken into consideration?
Thank you, Jay! Great question. Dividends do make a difference, but not by much—9.6% versus 8.3% over one year, 166% vs. 153% over five years, and so on. Here’s a link to the total return version of the index so you can see for yourself:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5ESP500TR/
Compelling. I think I'll buy another 5 baht of gold tomorrow. And take possession instead of leaving it with the very established retail gold agent here.
"Steve" is an idiot.
A top analysis .. if that doesn’t put reality into perspective I don’t know what ever will… the real issue is we have been assailed, nay assaulted with a trope and incessant narrative that Gold is of no value as an investment, it’s a mantra we have been told time and time again, almost pathologically in order to “steer” and “skew” our thinking away from the Worlds oldest known real money, steering us into the funny money, the fanciful, the unreal, pretend, contrived,made up stuff, anything but real… sure using puts, options, derivatives and every other conceived of financial instrument an individual can become an outlier and make many, many times more money than would ordinarily seem possible with just real and timeless money.. gold, but every second you are in that zone, the funny money exposure you are at risk of loss, big loss.
The market is rigged, it’s not a true representation of reality, big players led the central banks and in the case of the U.S Fed Reserve dominate the market, placing buy/sells all in order to steady the great ship, the Stock Market..
Personally having invested in gold since the late 1990’s and the stock market over the same period, cashing out all of my Stocks save now only a bunch of ETF trades, doing so back in January I have no desire to go back in, good lord, even the treasuries market is manipulated, just as the Metals markets are … however, through it all, metals real tangibles and commodities I say will prove their true resilience, real, no counter party risks, just solid investments, seems the wheels are about to fall off the biggest market manipulation in history, when it comes, watch the worlds oldest, purest money take on a life form of its own, inheriting again its rightful place, both in terms of value and in terms of use and recognition as real money, the only other Tier 1 fiscal asset alongside the manipulated Treasuries to have that privilege bestowed, the genie is all but out of the bottle metaphorically speaking, once completely out, it won’t be going back into the bottle from whence it has come all that easily… nor readily, to many now understanding and realising just what it is Gold, Silver, Copper other precious metals alongside commodities actually represent in this world of make believe we live in… thus the clamour and demand for real is only going to intensify… as it should, best of all, it’s all predicate solid, rock solid fundamentals and your analysis has assisted in reinforcing the age old benefit of owning and possessing real money.. just saying
Kia Kaha ( Stay Strong ) from New Zealand