Alternatives to US stocks?

[Fishhead24]

I found the following statistics while doing a search on the internet a few days ago. Obviously the timeframe was many years ago, but you can see that for extended period of times, there can be many things better to invest in than the stock market. Remember, be as divirsified as you possibly can.


Performance of Various Investments from 1968 to 1979

(In Compound Annual Gains)
19.4% Gold
18.9% Stamps
15.7% Rare books
13.7% Silver
12.7% Coins (U.S. non-gold)
12.5% Old masters' paintings
11.8% Diamonds
11.3% Farmland
9.6% Single-family homes
6.5% Inflation (CPI)
6.4% Foreign currencies
5.8% High-grade corporate bonds
3.1% Stocks

[DcifrThs]

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I found the following statistics while doing a search on the internet a few days ago. Obviously the timeframe was many years ago, but you can see that for extended period of times, there can be many things better to invest in than the stock market. Remember, be as divirsified as you possibly can.


Performance of Various Investments from 1968 to 1979

(In Compound Annual Gains)
19.4% Gold
18.9% Stamps
15.7% Rare books
13.7% Silver
12.7% Coins (U.S. non-gold)
12.5% Old masters' paintings
11.8% Diamonds
11.3% Farmland
9.6% Single-family homes
6.5% Inflation (CPI)
6.4% Foreign currencies
5.8% High-grade corporate bonds
3.1% Stocks

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what do you do that allows you to make a lot of money, but still seem to not be able to make coherent arguments about markets??

the fact that this was many years ago wasn't the problem. what IS the problem is that you picked a time span where stocks did horribly, bonds did poorly, inflation was killer and commodities kicked ass.

why not show what happened in the previous decades? or the following ones?

well because then you'd find out that stocks did very well post war to 1968 (barring a the recession in 1961-62 and again in 67), and they did very well from 80-present.

i really sometimes don't get your, fishhead...i mean you talk like you have a ton of money and have made a lot of it off markets (or real estate, or farmland), but then you go ahead and say a number of fairly elementary and stupid things... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Barron

[cbloom]

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No such asset exists.

Nevertheless, REITs, CCFs, bonds, and TIPS are good diversifying assets.

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What does CCF stand for?

[brendanb438]

Fishhead has made all of his money off of helping out the kids!

[Woolygimp]

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I found the following statistics while doing a search on the internet a few days ago. Obviously the timeframe was many years ago, but you can see that for extended period of times, there can be many things better to invest in than the stock market. Remember, be as divirsified as you possibly can.


Performance of Various Investments from 1968 to 1979

(In Compound Annual Gains)
19.4% Gold
18.9% Stamps
15.7% Rare books
13.7% Silver
12.7% Coins (U.S. non-gold)
12.5% Old masters' paintings
11.8% Diamonds
11.3% Farmland
9.6% Single-family homes
6.5% Inflation (CPI)
6.4% Foreign currencies
5.8% High-grade corporate bonds
3.1% Stocks

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what do you do that allows you to make a lot of money, but still seem to not be able to make coherent arguments about markets??

the fact that this was many years ago wasn't the problem. what IS the problem is that you picked a time span where stocks did horribly, bonds did poorly, inflation was killer and commodities kicked ass.

why not show what happened in the previous decades? or the following ones?

well because then you'd find out that stocks did very well post war to 1968 (barring a the recession in 1961-62 and again in 67), and they did very well from 80-present.

i really sometimes don't get your, fishhead...i mean you talk like you have a ton of money and have made a lot of it off markets (or real estate, or farmland), but then you go ahead and say a number of fairly elementary and stupid things... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Barron

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Gold dropped from what $850/oz to $250 oz from 1980-1981.

GO GOLD.

[Fishhead24]

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Fishhead has made all of his money off of helping out the kids!

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I can't afford a ham sandwich, who you kiddin? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[DcifrThs]

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Fishhead has made all of his money off of helping out the kids!

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I can't afford a ham sandwich, who you kiddin? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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yet you can afford to make poor arguments without much use of thought and/or logic...

amazing how that works.

Barron