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> [“In fact, for someone in the highest tax bracket, short-term Treasury bills have yielded a negative after-tax real return since 1871, even lower if state and local taxes are taken into account. In contrast, top-bracket taxable investors would have increased…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/in-fact-for-someone-in-the-highest-tax-bracket-short-term-treasury/)

[Jeremy J. Siegel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-j-siegel/)

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## More by Jeremy J. Siegel

> [“By the end of 2012, the price of gold reached $1,675 per ounce, and $1 of gold bullion purchased in 1802 was worth $86.40…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/by-the-end-of-2012-the-price-of-gold-reached-1-675-per-ounce-and-1-of/)

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> [“At the end of 2012, the yield on nominal bonds was about 2 percent. The only way that bonds could generate a 7.8 percent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/at-the-end-of-2012-the-yield-on-nominal-bonds-was-about-2-percent-the/)

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> [“The S&P 500 Index originally contained exactly 425 industrial, 25 rail, and 50 utility firms, but these groupings were abandoned in 1988 in order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/the-s-p-500-index-originally-contained-exactly-425-industrial-25-rail/)

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> [“Africa remains a small part of the world economy until 2070, when it begins to expand rapidly, reaching 14 percent, the same size as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/africa-remains-a-small-part-of-the-world-economy-until-2070-when-it/)

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> [“It took just over 15 years to recover the money invested at the 1929 peak, following a crash far worse than Smith had ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/it-took-just-over-15-years-to-recover-the-money-invested-at-the-1929/)

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> [“CVS Corporation, which in 1957 entered the S&P 500 Index as Melville Shoe Corp.,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/cvs-corporation-which-in-1957-entered-the-s-p-500-index-as-melville/)

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> [“China will be the world’s largest economy when its per capita income reaches 25 percent of that of the United States, which is forecast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/china-will-be-the-world-s-largest-economy-when-its-per-capita-income/)

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> [“There is a good reason why stocks are not reacting to Fed policy as they have in the past. Investors have become so geared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/there-is-a-good-reason-why-stocks-are-not-reacting-to-fed-policy-as/)

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> [“The first actively traded U.S. stocks, floated in 1791, were issued by two banks: the Bank of New York and the Bank of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/the-first-actively-traded-u-s-stocks-floated-in-1791-were-issued-by/)

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> [“In 2006 the United Nations Human Development Report estimated that 2.6 billion people, or 40 percent of the world’s population, had no indoor plumbing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/in-2006-the-united-nations-human-development-report-estimated-that-2/)

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> [“would the Volcker amendment, had it been law in 2007, have prevented the 2008 financial crisis? The financial crisis was caused by the overleveraging…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/would-the-volcker-amendment-had-it-been-law-in-2007-have-prevented/)

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> [“There is no question that the losing IPOs far outnumber the winners. Of the 8,606 firms examined, the returns on 6,796 of these firms,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/there-is-no-question-that-the-losing-ipos-far-outnumber-the-winners/)

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> [“the economy of China will become twice the size of the U.S. economy in 2025 if both countries’ per capita income continues to grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/the-economy-of-china-will-become-twice-the-size-of-the-u-s-economy-in/)

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> [“The government can put dividends on the same tax basis as capital gains if the tax authorities allow investors to obtain a tax deferral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/the-government-can-put-dividends-on-the-same-tax-basis-as-capital/)

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> [“As a result, proportional movements of high-priced stocks in the Dow averages have a much greater impact than movements of lower-priced stocks, regardless of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-j-siegel/as-a-result-proportional-movements-of-high-priced-stocks-in-the-dow/)

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