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The Losses of a Money Magazine Portfolio

The scale looks like for every $100 invested at the start, you'd be at $104 at the end of eight years. To be up $4,000 you'd have to had invested $100,000. To make $4,000 on $10,000 would be decent in these times, though not the near doubling in seven years that is the vision of compounding advocates. The financial engineering of companies appears to have weakened the corporate landscape. When Sears, GM, Ford, etc began to make more money financing purchases than in cash sale of the items, probably back in the 1970's - and after the tight credit of the early 1980's, the magic of interest and fee income from creditors of all types, preferably those who carried large balances ended up putting money creation in the hands of the private sector, that is - money as debt. We are headed for inflation to avoid deflation. What assets can keep up with that?