Stocks: Why Investors Can Still Expect 8% Long Term [Kiplinger]

This Kiplinger commentary is optimistic about future stock market performance even as it concedes of the awful performance of the last decade:

Soured on stocks? It’s understandable that many investors have, after watching their assets founder for so long. If you invested $100 in the Standard & Poor’s 500 in April of 2000, you have only about $97 today.