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To: benwood who wrote (70316)1/12/2011 3:02:51 PM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 218073
 
And if you include storage and insurance costs for gold, stocks become even better.



To: benwood who wrote (70316)1/14/2011 10:02:31 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 218073
 
<<I think if you include dividends, the picture for stocks is quite a bit better.>>

... Not really, because in order to actually achieve the investment return indicated by the chart, one would have to buy n sell stocks, as hardly anyone would have done a pure index play from way back when.

Buy n sell involve payment of taxes, and real taxes on phantom inflation gains.


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