Subject: Re: 15 year comparison - BRK vs S&P
Be sure to use the total returns which include dividends reinvested, not price-only.
Also graph using Logarithmic scale, not linear...

Good advice. Everything should be inflation adjusted, too.

But even a graph that is crude and breaks the rules can express a useful amount of information. Though inflation adjusted, this one isn't semilog and it's not adjusted for dividends, so it's purely a "value of the index" discussion. Still, it speaks to me.
http://www.stonewellfunds.com/...

This one is along the same line, but messier. The intended observation is that the warm colours have done a lot better than the cool colours. It's inflation adjusted and a lot graph, but doesn't concern itself with S&P dividends, so again it's just a "value of the index" thing.
http://www.stonewellfunds.com/...

Jim