source: https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/04/30-years-of-financial-market-returns/
A colleague recently asked me to run the 30 year annual returns for U.S. stocks, bonds and cash.
He just wanted the returns. I couldn’t help but slice and dice the numbers and overanalyze the data because that’s what we do here.
Let’s dig in.
First the annual return numbers for the S&P 500, 10 year treasuries and 3 month T-bills over the 30 years ending in 2023:
Some thoughts about these numbers:
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