Zeev, unfortunately I only have Treasury data back to 1953, but I gave it a try anyway and I think I see your point. (: It's interesting that the "Risk Free" PE actually crossed ABOVE the S&P PE recently, no? Here's the chart. (Note that it only goes through April of 2003. Professor Shiller hasn't updated his website lately.) <img src=http://home.earthlink.net/~augieboo/pecharts/sppe_riskfreepe.png>