[jack-r-abbit]

I was kind of expecting it to be more. Not that I'd complain about an extra $114k right now. But after 40+ years I was thinking it would be more.

[pmorici]

$1 per day isn't much money as far as initial investments go. They are also using the S&P 500 which by it's nature is mostly mature companies that aren't typically going to see explosive price doubling growth.

[digikata]

The S&P 500 is also a much safer hands-off investment which is likely to beat most active investors - especially for the amounts of investment we're talking about for $1/day (or even $10-100/day...)

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/03/04/469247400/episo...

[mason55]

Yeah I thought this would be a dramatic example of compound interest. Instead my total matches about 3 months worth of principle for me nowadays.

[toado85]

Just added dividends / dividend reinvestment. This makes a huge difference if you go back in the 70s and earlier.

[jack-r-abbit]

Huge difference for me. Put it up at $273k. A bit more than double what it was.

[xyzzy4]

If you invested $1/day on margin, and sell or buy more over time to maintain a debt/equity ratio, it would be a lot more.