“Opinion: This thorough study says which investments have done best since 1870”
By Howard Gold, MarketWatch, November 21.
Summarizing recent research by Òscar Jordà et al. in Quarterly Journal of Economics 34(3, August), Gold asks, “How well do the assets that people own perform over decades? The most recent effort to measure that … is titled “The Rate of Return on Everything: 1870-2015.” It tracks the total return of stocks, housing, Treasury bills and government bonds for 16 countries over that time and may be the most comprehensive data set on asset returns ever assembled.”
Based on FRB San Francisco Working Paper 2017-25
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