"(O)ur Space Shuttle cost estimates in The New York Times (see above) on March 22, 1993 — in 1992 dollars we estimated that the shuttle cost about $1.1 billion per launch, or $1.7 billion if we included development costs. That was 3-4x times higher than the costs that NASA represented to Congress.
Uh-oh.
So on the same day as the NYT article was published an official from NASA called me up in the graduate student bullpen where I had a desk. I remember it like it was yesterday. I thought initially, naively, he might be calling to congratulate me for the good policy work. He was not."
Ed McQuarrie talks the REAL History of Stocks and Bond performance.
https://www.morningstar.com/portfolios/how-use-commodities-your-portfolio?utm_source=eloqua&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=FundSpy&utm_content=None_61962&utm_id=32070
How Commodities funds can help diversification with Stocks and Bonds and usually not correlated to either
https://www.morningstar.com/funds/most-stunning-fact-about-vanguards-etf-flows-2
This article shows people are pulling money out of mutual funds and putting it into index funds an example is VOO. Also Vanguard Primecap and Core fund opened the fund due to them both because of money being pulled out. INDEX ETF's way to go tax efficient and low expenses