the S&P 500 index generated annual returns of more than 20%. Buying and holding the S&P 500 index over the long run pays off. The following chart shows just how much it's done so over the past 30 ...

Since 2018, gold’s annual returns have outpaced those of the US stock market standard S&P 500 for four of the seven years.

All P/Es in the chart and used in this analysis ... a prediction that for the next 10 years, the S&P 500 would have at best an annualized return of only 3% for a 10-year cumulative return of ...

History offers two conflicting opinions about what happens next in the stock market. Here's what investors should know.