Inflation-Adjusted Return Of Deep Value Stocks In Comparison To Gold via Victor Wendl, author of The Net Current Asset Value Approach to Stock Investing: A Guide to Purchasing Stocks Trading below Liquidation Value
The performance of gold stood in sharp contrast to the return on stocks over the previous decade. Most people are not aware that stocks had a negative average annual return from 2000 to 2009. This time period produced even worse results than the Great Depression of the 1930s.[I] That terrible performance even assumes an investor reinvested the dividend income on their stock holdings. Given that backdrop of lousy equity performance, gold was viewed by the retail public as the asset...

