Inflation is now at 6.8% for the last 12 months. The last time it was this high was in 1982.

Inflation has been growing at a very high rate recently. You can now track recent and historical inflation rates at slickcharts.com/inflation. Rates are calculated using the consumer price index provided by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The S&P 500 finished 2021 with a 28.7% total return.

The year 2022 has not been kind to stocks... The NASDAQ 100 is down 11.5% year to date while the S&P 500 is down 7.7%.

Inflation continues to climb up and is now at 7.5%. slickcharts.com/inflation

Energy and oil companies are the top performers in the S&P 500 for 2022. slickcharts.com/sp500/performa…

Inflation is now at 7.87% for the last 12 months.

Inflation now up to 8.54% for the last twelve months. slickcharts.com/inflation

The NASDAQ 100 is down 20% year-to-date as of today's market close. The S&P 500 is holding up better as it is only 12% down year-to-date.

Performance and characteristics of alternative weighting strategies. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The Avoidable Costs of Index Rebalancing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The 'Actual Retail Price' of Equity Trades. See the figures at the end of the paper starting with Figure 1. TD Ameritrade is the best and Interactive Brokers (IB) is the worst according to their measurements. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The Expected Returns of ESG-Excluded Stocks alphaarchitect.com/2022/07/the-ex…

The S&P 500 just closed out 2022 with an 18.11% loss.

Overall inflation for 2022 was 6.45% which is slightly lower than the 7.04% inflation of 2021. slickcharts.com/inflation

Inflation on a 12 month basis fell to 6.41% but it spiked up 0.8% in the last month alone. slickcharts.com/inflation

"When you put more than $250,000 into a bank, you are making an unsecured loan to a leveraged counter-party that might fail." --Caitlin Long, Custodia Bank CEO

"The trick is not to pick the right company, the trick is to essentially buy all the big companies through the S&P 500 and to do it consistently" - Warren Buffet Meanwhile Berkshire Hathaway public fillings show it has 90% of its portfolio in 8 stocks with Apple alone at 50%.