<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 8:25 PM, spike </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> </span></p></span><div><span class=""><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">​><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​>​</div>…That doesn't count reinvestment of dividends. My 74 fold figure was a little out of date, from April 1974 to April 2016 it's 75.7 fold. <br></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">See for yourself:<br></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> <br></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/" target="_blank">https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/</a> <br></span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> ​</span><br></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Sure but if you compare them that way, you cannot use current net worth either.  It would assume the investor never spent any money since 1974.  We can be quite sure that it wasn’t cheap to send Marla Maples and Ivana Zelnickova on their way, nor was it cheap to purchase the current Mrs. Trump.<p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">​OK but  no amount of spin can turn Donald Trump into a brilliant businessman and economic genius, there are billionaires in Silicon Valley and elsewhere that fit that description but Donald doesn't. T</font></font><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">he best you can say about Trump is he didn't completely blow the inheritance he got from daddy.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark      ​</font></div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>