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It is important to take stock not just of the outcome, though, but of the process.
While the national central banks have not revealed how much they bought, the aggregate stock of all government bonds purchased rose from €74 billion ($102 billion) on August 4, to €165 billion this month.
The stock of overall Target credit that the ECB system has drawn from the Bundesbank was around zero until mid-2007.
The main stock price index has returned to its all-time high.
All of it – the constant scrutiny, the bad press, the tarnished reputation – will hit their long-term stock prices.
But to compete with the world’s economic powerhouses, like China, we also needed to improve the overall quality of our labor stock.
Such self-dealing takes many forms, including selling state-owned assets at below-market value to connected private parties and insider trading in the stock market.
The Chinese Economy’s Great WallWASHINGTON, DC – The recent decline in China’s currency, the renminbi, which has fueled turmoil in Chinese stock markets and drove the government to suspend trading twice last week, highlights a major challenge facing the country: how to balance its domestic and international economic obligations.
NEW HAVEN – The US stock market, as measured by the monthly real (inflation-adjusted) S&P Composite Index, or S&P 500, has increased 3.3-fold since its bottom in March 2009.
This makes the US stock market the most expensive in the world, according to the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings (CAPE) ratio that I have long advocated.
Over that 20-month interval, real monthly US stock prices rose 24%.
With prices and earnings moving together on a nearly one-for-one basis, one might conclude that the US stock market is behaving sensibly, simply reflecting the US economy’s growing strength.
This has happened dramatically more than a dozen times in the US stock market’s history.
Although real S&P Composite annual earnings rose 2.6-fold in just two years, from around trend in 1914 to a record high in 1916, stock prices rose only 16% from December 1914 to December 1916.
But stock price movements haven’t always been as rational as they were in 1916.
After the end of the 1920-21 recession, real annual earnings, which had been depressed by the downturn, increased more than fivefold in the eight years to 1929, and real stock prices increased almost as much – more than fourfold.
Unfortunately, that spirit did not end well, with both stock prices and corporate earnings crashing catastrophically at the end of the decade.
There was then a period, from 1982 to 2000, when real stock prices increased 7.5-fold while real annual earnings only doubled.
By 2003, however, both real earnings and real stock prices fell by almost half.
Nonetheless, this period ended with the financial crisis and another collapse in earnings and stock prices.
Apparently, investors believe that this boom is going to last, or at least that other investors think it should last, which is why they are bidding up stock prices in a dramatic response to the earnings increase.
The key lesson from Chile is that a defined-contribution, funded system with individual accounts has some advantages: it can stimulate savings, provide a large and growing stock of investible funds (over $170 billion in Chile), and spur economic growth.
My colleague and current Fed Governor Randall Koszner studied this episode and showed that not only stock prices, but also bond prices, soared after the Supreme Court upheld the decision.
Since then, the stock market has reached record heights, commodity prices have recovered, and forecasts of US economic growth keep rising.
Suppose that you could follow quantitative rules that allowed you to weed out the bad apples, say, the countries likely to perform badly and thus have low stock returns over time.
(Full disclosure: my firm, together with a large global financial institution, is launching a series of tradable equity indices for stock markets of advanced economies and emerging markets, using a smart beta approach).
That is more than the value of the entire existing stock of infrastructure.
This information will have a large impact on health-care companies’ stock prices.
It also has people who do set up 401(k) accounts and then invest them badly – for example, Enron workers whose 401(k) money was overwhelmingly invested in company stock lost not only their jobs when the company went bankrupt, but also their pension assets.
The following morning, the stock exchange rebounded 13%, bank shares rose by more than 20%, and the bank run ceased.
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