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That may sound extreme, but some scholars, such as the 2004 Nobel Prize winner Ed Prescott, have shown that, historically, holding a large diversified portfolio of stocks long enough is generally a far better investment than ultra-safe US Treasury bonds.
A back-of-the-envelope calculation shows that with the risk premium removed, stocks prices could easily triple from existing levels, with price/dividend ratios soaring to over 200, compared to historical averages of 40 to 50.
Stocks are risky, depressions can happen, and it is dangerous to extrapolate the past to the future.
A third channel through which easy money might work is by pushing up the value of assets like stocks, bonds, and houses, making people feel wealthier – and thus more likely to spend.
In truth, however, the big story is the uneerie calm that has engulfed virtually every major asset class, from stocks to bonds.
These behemoths’ innate conservatism, having calmed bond and currency markets, is now having a similar effect on stocks.
Imagine how you would feel about investing if every article you read were only about stocks that did poorly, with no reporting on the big successes.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, nearly one-third of global fish stocks are already harvested at an unsustainable level, meaning wild populations cannot regenerate quickly enough to make up for the rate at which they’re fished.
Because aquaculture systems often operate on coastlines or near inland rivers or ponds, they tend to disrupt natural habitats, contribute to nitrogen pollution, and add undue pressure on feeder fish stocks.
Transparency for TunaPALIKIR/SAN FRANCISCO – A cluster of small Pacific islands is poised to make history in the management of global fish stocks.
And it would promote future prosperity by helping to ensure that tuna stocks are fished sustainably, and that foreign vessels fishing in these waters do not take more than is permitted by law.
With control over half of the world’s supply of skipjack tuna and about a third of tuna stocks globally, the PNA is a veritable OPEC of the sea.
State-of-the-art electronic monitoring will also help ensure the sustainability of fish stocks and the communities they support.
Protecting a third of the world’s tuna stocks could be just the start of the global transparency revolution needed to protect our oceans – and our future.
Elsewhere in the region, water stress from reduced rainfall, salinity, glacial retreat, and desertification will hit water stocks, threaten livelihoods, and drive up food and water prices.
What is a good reason to sell is that stocks are too high from a longer-term perspective.
The implication is that the rate of return on stocks is likely to be substantially lower over the next 15 years than it was over the last 15 years.
True, if a computer is programmed to respond to declining prices by selling more stocks, it will exacerbate the decline.
If programmed instantly to “buy on the dip,” a computer would generate demand for falling stocks and thus tend to stabilize prices, just like a human investor who buys when prices fall.
They tightened margin requirements in January, and again in April, when they also facilitated short-selling by expanding the number of eligible stocks.
Stocks of this highly prized fish have declined by up to 80% since the dawn of industrialized fishing, and this has been on ICCAT’s watch.
For their part, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States have created observer schemes and systems to assess and manage fish stocks.
Proponents of this view point to furious trading in New York and London, with average holding periods for major stocks diminishing in recent decades.
But, because the Kremlin does not trust its own stocks and bonds, the Stabilization Fund invests in Western securities.
In his celebrated 2002 book Stocks for the Long Run , Jeremy Siegel shows that the American stock market returned 6.9% per year in real terms between 1802 and 2001.
The idea that stocks will perform well in the future has many promoters today, especially among those trying to sell investments in stocks.
In the United States, President George W. Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security cited Siegel for its claim that the government should encourage people to invest in stocks.
Bush has been traveling the country promoting a plan to introduce personal retirement accounts invested in stocks and bonds.
The plan assumes a 6.5% real return for stocks – only slightly below Siegel’s constant –in future decades.
Siegel himself recently projected only a 6% average real return for US stocks over the next four decades.
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