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Reflections on Buffett’s Famous Essay, ”How Inflation Swindles the Equity Investor”

This Week in Intelligent Investing

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The S&P 500 Return on Equity Hasn't Risen With Inflation

The return on capital, his proxy for that being the return on equity hasn't risen with inflation. It seems to be stuck at 12%. And he goes through and sure enough using the Dow Jones industrial average,. it kind of bounced around for 20, 30 years leading into that period between 10, 12% in a couple of individual years is recently as 1974. He got all the way up to 14.1% in 1970 it was down at nine and a half percent, but it really was quite consistent at 12%. The S&P 500 return has gone up over the years right as we all know and it's mostly gone up in the 90s and the 2000s.

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