Economy

This was a study I did, a few weeks ago -- for the 3 year period ending April 9:

VFIAX, the Vanguard S&P 500 fund gained 12.9% (total return, including reinvested dividends) when adjusted for inflation. So that's positive, but not much for 3 years.

VCOBX, a Vanguard intermediate term core bond fund that I have is down in nominal dollars (again, with reinvested dividends). And when adjusted for inflation, is down 21.8%.

The stream of income from my fixed income annuity is down 17.9% in purchasing power

I doubt the numbers would be much different if repeated today except VFIAX would be somewhat better while the bond fund would be equally dismal. But here are the links I used
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/vfiax/chart
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/vcobx/chart
CPI: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0