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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: jackjc who wrote (34922)6/28/2005 8:24:13 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön  Read Replies (2) of 110194
 
Value of paper money is down over 94% during my lifetime

of course, you need to include the return on paper money, if you did not stick it under the mattress (you just have to take it to the bank). did you include the year CDs returned 18% in the 1980s? did you include the return on paper money for every single year? if you didn't, you didn't make a fair comparison. obviously, cash is always at par. the performance of cash over time is par PLUS the return on cash, which is considerble over long periods of time. cash return last century was 5800%. not as good as the stock market but considerably better than RE. and of course cash had long periods of outperforming other asset classes, especially when their valuations got stretched, like now.
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