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18 May 2009

Time to buy buy buy!

Meanwhile, that website should probably be called "I Hate The Left".
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 18 May | 12:28
*groan* What a horrible chart to show out of context.

It doesn't hold accounting practices constant. The more recent numbers show huge unrealized mark-to-market losses, whereas prior to this financial crisis mark-to-market wasn't really applicable and/or applied. If you use the S&P 500's "operating earnings" result, which strips out some of the non-cash items the most recent data point is something like $50 versus $15 show in this chart.

I think if this chart (and underlying accounting practices) were more "honest", there never would have been the big run-up in earnings post-2002 and the decline in 2008 would be less dramatic.

Also, the chart's data is from Prof. Robert Shiller's very informative website. It's also available in a slightly different format on the S&P website.
posted by mullacc 18 May | 12:59
"Time to buy buy buy!" - I am am am!
posted by Ardiril 18 May | 13:50
What a horrible chart to show out of context.

Fine. :p Then here are pictures of Debbie Gibson with Tiffany - then and now.
posted by Joe Beese 18 May | 13:55
If Tiffany is a, quote, "dog face", then she's a rather attractive one; quite a fine collie, or something like that. Perhaps, now I think about it, the commenter there has inadvertently put his finger on the reason good old Tiff always scored such high marks for me.

...I'm sorry, we were talking about what, index funds, wasn't it?
posted by Wolfdog 18 May | 14:22
why can't you just rickroll like everyone else?
posted by Lipstick Thespian 18 May | 18:07
AskMe Crosspost: || This is just to say that:

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