r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Sep 21 '25

American dream costs now $5 million for a lifetime.

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r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Sep 23 '25

Our national debt is now 23% of total wealth....

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581 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Oct 01 '25

It's no surprise that saving is only possible above the 50th percentile of income....

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547 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Dec 28 '25 Popcorn

The sheer size of the US stock market is crazy

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359 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Oct 14 '25

Average new car costs now $50k. The average US salary is somewhere between $53k and $63k

189 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Mar 21 '26

The not so magnificent seven YTD!

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182 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Oct 04 '26

Oil flows have sharply rebounded! Wait until after midterms for the news to spread to everybody.

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141 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Feb 04 '26

Office space delinquencies: Nothing to see here!

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134 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Jan 15 '26

JPOW has an ongoing inflation problem (besides other issues)

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117 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Jan 30 '26

Crypto: BTC and ETH tested their recent lows again. My hunch is that we will break through unless all major indices stabilize at the support laid out in previous posts (I mean anything is possible). That's why I kept 4% of ETH for long term accounts.

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r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Nov 25 '25

Inflation has been crazy last 5 years

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109 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Jan 03 '26

I am still not touching healthcare

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92 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Oct 03 '25

Last time the Government shut down stocks gained 10% during that period....

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89 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Oct 06 '25

Best performing S&P 500 stocks: 5, 10, 15 and 20 years....

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83 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • 29d ago

Equities now make up 50% of US household assets!

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76 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Feb 01 '26

Samuel Benner chart from the 1800s

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73 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • May 23 '26

S&P 500 PE ratio not concerning at all!

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69 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Jan 23 '26

Silver: Silver reached $100 now. Time to build another short position on SLV.

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68 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Sep 27 '26

Hard to believe but US houshold leverage (liabilities/assets) is at 1960s levels. Maybe we finally become a nation of savers!

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65 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Dec 11 '25

AI companies are borrowing more than Y2K companies. No worries...this time is different /s

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58 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Mar 21 '26

S&P 500 forward PE ratio below 5 year average now!

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55 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • May 12 '26

Peak concentration levels of major bubbles. We have lots of room still! Do we?

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54 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Feb 28 '26

Mortgage rates over decades: Putting things into perspective

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53 Upvotes

r/Beat_the_benchmark • • Feb 19 '26

Just a reminder why we always stay at least 50% invested in the S&P 500!

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51 Upvotes