Atlas
The atlas of asset classes
Where your money flows when you invest, and what it has done there over the decades.
Lights the country of the series
Since 2005, US$100 became
Prices took 39 % of the purchasing power over the same years.
United StatesWhat 100 became, logarithmic axis
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Your inflation
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For your basket: 3.1 % a year, official total: 3.1 %.
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Single things
Single things are shown here for Germany only.
United StatesYear by year, from the series
| Asset | Per year, 2005 to 2025 | Per year, last 10 years | Per year, last 20 years | Largest fall from a year-end high | Years back to the old level | Series | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S&P 500 | 10.9 % | 14.7 % | 10.9 % | -36.6 % (2007 to 2008) | 5 | 1927 to 2025 | Source |
| Government bonds | 2.8 % | 0.9 % | 2.8 % | -21.5 % (2020 to 2022) | not yet | 1927 to 2025 | Source |
| Gold | 10.8 % | 11.5 % | 10.8 % | -30.5 % (2012 to 2015) | 8 | 1900 to 2025 | Source |
| Homes | 3.5 % | 7.0 % | 3.5 % | -17.6 % (2007 to 2012) | 10 | 1975 to 2025 | Source |
| Money market (3-month T-bills) | 1.7 % | 2.2 % | 1.7 % | no data | 1927 to 2025 | Source | |
| Bitcoin | no data | 70.2 % | no data | -73.6 % (2017 to 2018) | 3 | 2011 to 2025 | Source |
| Prices | 2.5 % | 3.1 % | 2.5 % | highest year 2022: 8.0 % | 1913 to 2025 | Source |
- Quelle: Aswath Damodaran, Historical Returns on Stocks, Bonds and Bills (NYU Stern)
- Source: World Bank, Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
- Quelle: U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, FHFA House Price Index
- Schlusskurs am 31.12. (UTC), je Jahr von Hand belegt; Euro über den EZB-Referenzkurs des letzten Handelstags, umgerechnet.
- Quelle: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Quelle: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Data as of 9 November 2026 · Method and sources
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