Showing posts with label Advisor Perspectives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Advisor Perspectives. Show all posts
Sunday, October 12, 2025

The total value of all the stocks on the U.S. stock market is now 216% of GDP

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  ... The total value of all the stocks on the U.S. stock market is now 216% of gross domestic product, a metric once cited by Warren Buff...
Thursday, October 3, 2019

Average miles traveled on US roads in 2019 through July looks flat compared with 2018

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To put the complicated calculation in a nutshell, travel per person 16 years old and over averaged about 12,497 miles for the first seven...
Sunday, January 7, 2018

Real weekly earnings of non-supervisory employees are the same in 2016 as they were in 1980

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$749, and that's an improvement . Discussed here .
Friday, January 23, 2015

S&P 500 market capitalization/GDP ratios the years before plus-20% crashes

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http://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/commentaries/CAPE-at-Market-Peaks.php 1955: 104* 1956: 101 1957:   84 1960: 107 1961: 12...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Obama says you're better off than when he took office, except you are not

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click to enlarge Obama says, quoted here : "Like the rest of America, black America in the aggregate is better off now than i...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

The problem is that the long-term eventually shows up

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Seen here .
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Fair value of the S&P500 in early April: 1033

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Doug Short, here : The regression trendline drawn through the data clarifies the secular pattern of variance from the trend — those ...
Monday, March 17, 2014

Americans Still Earn Way Too Little To Afford The Median Priced Home

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The national median price for an existing home in December 2013 was $196,300 . Median household income at the end of 2013 had reached $52,29...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Rush Limbaugh Today Totally Botches Income Quintiles On The Program

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"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." The relevant passage is here : Poverty is expressed a...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Current Fair Value Of The S&P500 Is . . . 1005

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Doug Short updates his regression analysis for the S&P500, adjusted for inflation, to come up with the S&P500 today about 80% above ...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Estimated Fair Value Of The S&P500 Today Is About 1000

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Doug Short doesn't say "fair value", but about 1000 should be the fair value level of the index using regression analysis, her...
Monday, April 22, 2013

The New Yorker Magazine Engages In Pure Fantasy About The Underground Economy

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This is your stereotypical New York look-down-your-nose-at-the-rubes dismissal of fly-over country where God, guns and cash deals are the b...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Real Retail Remains In Depression, Still Over 8% Down From 2005 Peak

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Doug Short explains his chart,  here . Real retail remains mired in a depression, despite the progress made digging out of the bottom of the...