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Re: DOLLARLAND post# 13666

Friday, 09/23/2011 5:32:51 PM

Friday, September 23, 2011 5:32:51 PM

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So you're being conservative.....




Robert Shiller's plot of the S&P Composite Real Price-Earnings Ratio and Interest Rates (1871–2008), from Irrational Exuberance, 2d ed.[1] In the preface to this edition, Shiller warns that "[t]he stock market has not come down to historical levels: the price-earnings ratio as I define it in this book is still, at this writing [2005], in the mid-20s, far higher than the historical average. ... People still place too much confidence in the markets and have too strong a belief that paying attention to the gyrations in their investments will someday make them rich, and so they do not make conservative preparations for possible bad outcomes."

Times are worse than 2005

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields