The S&P 500 fell 57.69% from October 2007 to March 2009, but real earnings fell even more, from a high of $98.43 in June 2007 to a low of $8.01 in April 2009, a 91.86% decline. Some might think that this historical collapse is inflating the CAPE ratio. In other words, if real earnings didn’t…

Adam Smith once said “Show me a portfolio, I’ll tell you the generation.” It’s safe to say if he peeked inside a brokerage account today, he wouldn’t recognize which generation he was in. The story we keep hearing about is the shift from active to passive, and while it’s true that dollars are leaving stock…

“For bubbles, I want a systematic way of identifying them. It’s a simple proposition. You have to be able to predict that there is some end to it. All the tests people have done trying to do that don’t work. Statistically, people have not come up with ways of identifying bubbles.” – Eugene F. Fama,…