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    • Sat Aug 16th 08:46 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Value of Long-Term Investing: A $370K Chart
      Excellent post and even better comments. The retail investor's snag is the tax issue. And the helpful adviser needs to figure out how that impacts these will be on investors.
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    • Thu May 8th 08:59 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Reconsidering P/E Contractions: What Goes Up Must Stay Sideways?
      My quick take is that the author is saying that the PEs are still too high for declining prices. Hmmm, I wonder. Never looked at it the way the author is suggesting. But... PE has 2 halves -- Earnings and investor demand (i.e., price). Earnings are short-term efects, with a rather immediate impact on PEs (after quarterly postings). Investor demand is less likely to switch on or off as dramatically. With the proliferation of mutual funds and index funds and pension plans, there is always a relatively stable base of demand for equities, and the longer the investor's time horizon, the more likely that demand for equities will be relatively stable.

      I don't think the author addressed this point. How would he account for the relatively stable demand for equities as a factor in the discussion of PE trends?

      Btw -- a final q. I had been tracking PE for the S&P 500 and the DJIA for a while and now my data source seems corrupted. Is there a reliable free source for day opening PE ratios for both indices anywhere on the net?
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    • Fri Apr 18th 16:15 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Global P/E Ratios: How the U.S. Stacks Up
      Where's this data coming from?? The PE for the S&P 500 was about 17.2 earlier this week and 17.66 at today's close. (Source: markets.usatoday.com/c...) That's not like either of your PE #s of 20.7 or 14.3. So where did your numbers come from, and why are they so differenc than the feed used by USA Today?
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    • Tue Mar 11th 10:53 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Fantasy-Based Economics
      An excellent post! Best quote -- "Actions speek louder than words." For the past 7+ years this administration has sneaked in a 30% devaluation of the dollar. Nothing Bush could say will make the cognoscenti believe him. Then again Abraham Lincoln had some advice (for Bush?), "You can fool some of the people ..."
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