God is a Capitalist

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Is the stock market overvalued?


University of Pennsylvania’s Jeremy Siegel has been shooting again at Yale professor Robert Shiller’s stock market valuation model, the cyclically-adjusted price-earnings ratio, or CAPE, according to William L. Watts at The Tell blog on the MarketWatch web site at http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/.

CAPE showed an adjusted P/E ratio of 23.57 recently, considerably above the long term average and an indication that the market is overvalued. Here is the chart of CAPE from Watts’ blog: