["Wealth is the number of days you could sustain your lifestyle if you were to stop working today"- Buckminster Fuller]Or is the stock market only an indicator of credit availability, that is, leverage and a unassailable trust in future wealth creation?
Extra Credit / Required Reading:
- Dollar Strength on Recognition of Worldwide Crappiness
- Robinson Crusoe and the Subjectivity of Desire
- Reflections on Today, from Henry Clews, 1908.
- Art Market Rules
- The Long View... 1885-2009
- Forecast: The Battle Between Paper and Tangible Assets, A Personal View
- Tobin's Q
- Luxury Goods
- After the Gold Rush...
- The Gaussian Fallacy and other Bullshit Baby Boomer Epistomologi
- Douchebag of the Noughties
- Synopsis of the Panic of '08
- You Know its a Bubble When...
- Quantitative Easing
- Vallejo, CA
07 October 2008
1966
So, regarding the very real, but still unlikely prospect that the Dow could fall back to the year 1966, (it peaked then at 6900 points versus 9400 today)... how good of an economic indicator is the stock market? Has there been any real and inalienable increase in wealth since 1966?
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