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S&P500 Priced in Gold

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Re: S&P500 Priced in Gold

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FreeTrade wrote: post #9
hnburnsy wrote: post #8

Totally misleading, S&P with dividends reinvested blows away gold since 1950 or 1971. S&P 500 Investment (with Dividends Reinvested) Historical data shows that $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the start of 1950, with all dividends reinvested, would grow to approximately $3,836,763 by the end of 2025. Gold provided pure price appreciation (no yield or dividends). The multiplier is about 124.7× ($4,360 ÷ $35), or an…

And to be extra fair, we might want to subtract tax from those dividends before reinvestment.

Storing that gold most cost something too.

Re: S&P500 Priced in Gold

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Post by xnx »

What is the point of this chart? It would make more sense to price in terms of hamburgers or any other reasonably consistent item of real consistent value/utility.

Re: S&P500 Priced in Gold

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Post by icegreentea2 »

hnburnsy wrote: post #8

Totally misleading, S&P with dividends reinvested blows away gold since 1950 or 1971. S&P 500 Investment (with Dividends Reinvested) Historical data shows that $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the start of 1950, with all dividends reinvested, would grow to approximately $3,836,763 by the end of 2025. Gold provided pure price appreciation (no yield or dividends). The multiplier is about 124.7× ($4,360 ÷ $35), or an…

The point of this entire website isn't about gold vs equity as an investment, it's about gold vs fiat currency as a superior measurement of value.

https://pricedingold.com/about/

Re: S&P500 Priced in Gold

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Post by OutOfHere »

lostlogin wrote: post #11
FreeTrade wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And to be extra fair, we might want to subtract tax from those dividends before reinvestment.

Storing that gold most cost something too.

Storing gold costs nothing but a little space which isn't an issue given how compact it is.

Re: S&P500 Priced in Gold

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Post by OutOfHere »

stephen_g wrote: post #3
xeckr wrote: post #2

Economic stagnation for over a decade? Aligns with the vibes, IMO.

Gold is just one of many commodities these days, mostly unconnected from most monetary systems for many decades. Treating it as the benchmark of value is really quite arbitrary, and I expect someone could compare the S&P to other random commodities and come up with completely different conclusions...

Not really. Gold is not a random commodity. It is historically the primary compact store of value, only recently to meet competition with Bitcoin.

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Post by netbioserror »

hnburnsy wrote: post #8

Totally misleading, S&P with dividends reinvested blows away gold since 1950 or 1971. S&P 500 Investment (with Dividends Reinvested) Historical data shows that $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the start of 1950, with all dividends reinvested, would grow to approximately $3,836,763 by the end of 2025. Gold provided pure price appreciation (no yield or dividends). The multiplier is about 124.7× ($4,360 ÷ $35), or an…

Great! We can start trading with each other in stock notes. I can't wait to buy my next round of groceries with a 0.1 SPY note! The ones I don't use will pay dividends!

Re: S&P500 Priced in Gold

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Post by aaronblohowiak »

netbioserror wrote: post #17
hnburnsy wrote: post #8

Totally misleading, S&P with dividends reinvested blows away gold since 1950 or 1971. S&P 500 Investment (with Dividends Reinvested) Historical data shows that $10,000 invested in the S&P 500 at the start of 1950, with all dividends reinvested, would grow to approximately $3,836,763 by the end of 2025. Gold provided pure price appreciation (no yield or dividends). The multiplier is about 124.7× ($4,360 ÷ $35), or an…

Great! We can start trading with each other in stock notes. I can't wait to buy my next round of groceries with a 0.1 SPY note! The ones I don't use will pay dividends!

you're joking, but this is basically what it means to be retired...

Re: S&P500 Priced in Gold

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Post by wmf »

xnx wrote: post #12

What is the point of this chart? It would make more sense to price in terms of hamburgers or any other reasonably consistent item of real consistent value/utility.

The site is trying to find evidence for retvrning to the gold standard.
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