Good afternoon! Jerome Powell’s tenure ended today. +218% return.
u/Bubble_Rider ·
Reddit — r/wallstreetbets
· May 15, 2026 at 21:01
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Post commemorates the end of Jerome Powell's term as Fed Chair, displaying historical S&P 500 annualized returns under past chairs.
Author's thesis is simply to compare performance, showing Powell with the highest adjusted annualized return (15.02%).
Quality assessment: noise; the post is a retrospective data table, not a research-backed trade thesis or forward-looking analysis.
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Farewell to the Chair!
EDIT
I asked codex to calculate annualized returns for previous Fed Chairs as well:-
Chair Actual data range Years Close total Close/yr Adj total Adj/yr
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Alan Greenspan 1993-01-29 to 2006-01-31 13.00 190.18% 8.54% 263.08% 10.42%
Ben Bernanke 2006-02-01 to 2014-01-31 8.00 38.78% 4.18% 63.74% 6.36%
Janet Yellen 2014-02-03 to 2018-02-02 4.00 58.15% 12.15% 71.37% 14.43%
Jerome Powell 2018-02-05 to 2026-05-15 8.27 180.06% 13.26% 218.19% 15.02%