Over a longer period it should do well assuming continued inflation caused by inflationism. The assumption of continuing inflationism is the only reasonable one. Every economy in the history of man has eventually inflated until ruined, unless it was on a gold or precious-metal standard. We in the United States are not on a gold or precious-metal standard today. All history, then, foretells that we shall have continued inflationism.
Astute investors expect it.
It is wise to hedge as well as you can against what all prior history indicates will happen in the United States, unless the country goes back again to a gold standard. Scripture says, Your sins will find you out. That is true of nations as well as individuals.