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MMM-104: Finding the Lost Decade

What lost decade? A novel of financial collapse. Fed comic books. Another guru says buy gold. Say goodbye to pennies, nickels, and quarters.

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According to the Benchmark Your Portfolio tool at IFA.com, while it may have been a “Lost Decade” for the US Large Cap stocks, turns out it was a “Boss Decade” for a broadly diversified portfolio of index funds such as the Index Portfolio 100.

Results 99 thru 07	US Large Cap	Index Portfolio 100
Annualized Return	0.70%	9.49%
Annualized SD	13.86%	14.33%
Growth of $1	$1.06	$2.26

Results are adjusted for inflation.

 

• You got Rickrolled!
• What lost decade? Indexfolio 100 is up 130%
• I read “Full Faith & Credit” a novel about financial collapse.
• Reading now:
• The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
• The Dick Davis Dividend
• The Disciplined Investor by Andrew Horowitz
• From Wall St. to the Great Wall by Burton Malkiel
• Gold: The Once and Future Money by Lewis
• Check out the Index Funds Advisors quote of the week.
• Find me at Twitter: MadMoneyMachine
• Our Tool isn’t IGotCramered.com because it apparently got Cramered.
• Our Tool instead is a series of comic books about the Federal Reserve.
• The musical interpretation of Step 3: Stock Pickers
• I review the Fox Business panel’s stock picks for 2008
• We went to the Dollar store and got 22 things. Will it go the way of Motel 6?
• Penny Dreadful says they talked about rounding to a nickel. Bogus! Round to the dime by simply dropping a decimal place. Then eliminate production of pennies and nickels (and quarters).
• Lost faith in Capitalism yet? Read Ten Days that Changed Capitalism.
• Our Guru says the price of gold is a reciprocal of confidence in Ben Bernanke and folks like him.

Music from music.podshow.com (and from YouTube.com):
Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley
Runaway Train – Under Feather
Money – Theory in Motion

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