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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Central Bank Enabled 30-Year Bull Run in Stocks Is Over
The Central Bank Enabled 30-Year Bull Run in Stocks Is Over
by David Stockman August 5, 2015
When stock market guru Laszlo Birinyi told bubblevision today that S&P 3200 would be reached by 2017, his argument was essentially to keep on keeping on:
What were really trying to tell people is stay with it, dont let the bad news shake you out Theres no reason we cant keep on going, he said.
That got me to thinking about when I first ran into Birinyi at Salomon Brothers way back in 1986. He was then a relatively underpaid numbers cruncher in the equity research department who was adept at making the bull case. Nigh onto 30 years later he has become a rich man crunching the numbers and still making the bull case.
Indeed, I dont ever recall when he wasnt making the case to be long equities, and as the chart below shows, you didnt actually have to crunch the numbers to get there. Just riding the bull from 200 in January 1986 to todays approximate 2100 on the S&P 500 index computes to a 8.4% CAGR and a 10% annual gain with dividends.
Even when you take the inflation out of it, this 30-year run is something close to awesome. But, alas, thats my point. Its too awesome.
In inflation-adjusted terms, the S&P 500 index rose by 6.2% per annum over the last three decades. That compares to just a 2.2% annual advance for real GDP, meaning that the market has risen nearly 3X faster than national output in real terms.
You dont have to be a math genius to realize that a few more decades of that kind of huge annual spread, and the stock market capitalization would be several hundred times larger than GDP. .................(more)
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/08/05/stock-guru-birinyis-sp-3200-call-bull-from-a-30-year-bull/
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The Central Bank Enabled 30-Year Bull Run in Stocks Is Over (Original Post)
marmar
Aug 2015
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SheilaT
(23,156 posts)1. Calling the entire thirty years a bull run
is a tad misleading. There are two very large drops that last for several years each. It sure didn't feel like a bull market those times.
Although it is very true, that over the long run stocks do go up.
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)2. So essentially, the whole S&P500 is a huge bubble...
just waiting to pop, unless propped up by imaginary "bull" tendencies and policies.