Post #44 by knighttof3 on the Index Investing board

Please be mindful of the tone of your posts, and avoid using tone that might be perceived as aggressive, confrontational, or dismissive. Instead, try to use a tone that is respectful, friendly, and supportive.

- Manlobbi

Investment Strategies / Index Investing

Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (24)

Prev | Next

Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!

No. of Recommendations: 1

Over the last 100 years the S&P 500 took three long, interesting trips to nowhere,
underperforming risk-free Treasury bills for 53 of those 100 years (1929-1945, 1959-1982, and 1995-2009).

That is an extremely misleading way to state things.
It seems to say that S&P 500 underperformed treasury bills for 53 years. Not at all true.
So many wrong assumptions, I don't want to try and point out all of them here.
Bottom line, one can safely ignore this lie, damn lie, and statistic.

Post New | Post Reply | Report Post | Recommend It!

Print the post

Unthreaded | Threaded | Whole Thread (24)

Prev | Next

Announcements

Index Investing FAQ

Contact Shrewd'm
Contact the developer of these message boards.

A community forum supporting civilized, and highly helpful, self-educating investors that come together for Shrewdness and merry spirits. These message boards closely follow the look and feel of the old message boards at boards.fool.com prior to the boards redirected to discussion.fool.com. Shrewd'm is not affiliated with the comprehensive and excellent investment website, The Motley Fool (TMF), in any way. The Shrewd commmunity here has owed, and continues to owe, gratitude to The Motley Fool for nurturing a culture of jovial irreverence towards Wall St, and that tradition will continue here.