Oh yeah, you're right. Thanks!

Tyler, way to throw me off by using red to represent a gain?

Hi Tyler, Appreciate your work. Can you clarify what this chart is showing? It looks like if you had invested in 1999, the real CAGR would have been negative for 7 years. This is inconsistent with your other charts and my own work. Thanks. Here's another way to visualize the same data above. [img wi...

Yes, every data point is CAGR since 1972 to that year.

The real CAGR looks much better with consistent 5% real return:

[img width=500]http://s28.postimg.org/rustwdl3h/pp_cagr_real.png[/img]

Thanks,
boruseek

This is a very good point. Thanks for the replies.

Hello everyone - my first post here, but I've been invested in the PP for a number of years. Has anyone noticed that the PP CAGR is going down over time. Using performance data from craig's blog and calculating the CAGR every year starting with 1972, this is what we get: [img width=500]http://s2.pos...