S&P 500 Returns Over The Last 40 Years
From: linkedin.com
11.6% per year over the past 40 years — you’re free to have your own feelings about investing in the stock market, but you can’t have your own facts.
This 40 year period has included recessions, wars, Y2K, 9/11, the tech bubble, the real estate meltdown, political turmoil, etc.
When you stay scared and keep your money uninvested, you miss out on a lot of compound growth.
Albert Einstein once said, “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.”
Every week/month/year will provide very rational sounding excuses to not invest right now, and yet here are the numbers.
The numbers don’t lie.
Remember: you can’t EARN your way to financial freedom. You’ve got to INVEST to get there.
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