The S&P 500 Dividend Yield Is 1.7 Percent Now for Index Investors

The period 1966 to 1981 was a very prolonged flat market big up and down movements along the way anyone who lived through the bear market of 1974 knows it was not by no means boring but again directionless. The last decade from 2000 where you have the tech bubble blow up all the way to 2009 where it ended with the housing bubble blow up in 0708 or 9 great financial crisis and again markets basically flat over that 10 year period. There's one thing missing on that chart we had shown one thing missing when I described these various periods of flat markets because we're looking at flat markets in terms of a price return but what I'm ignoring is of course dividends That actually the flat market may have