<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 6:45 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><br><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"><div><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">​​>… S</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">ince 1974, the year Dumb Donald inherited his money from<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">​much smarter ​Fred </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Trump, the S&P 500 has gone up 74 fold<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">f Donald had just put that money in a simple S&P index fund in 1974 and then sat on his hands for 42 years today he'd be worth well over 10 billion.</span></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>I am getting 21.4 fold increase since 1974:  2057/96 = 21.4<p></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​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 My 74 fold figure was a little out of date, from April 1974 to April 2016 it's 75.7 fold. </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">See for yourself:</span></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/">https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/</a> </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>