Re: Dow 36,000

Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:42:54 -0400

At 12:36 PM 10/21/1999 -0400, you wrote:
> >The analysis at:
> > http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/peratio.html
> > offers good reasons to suspect that US stocks will
> > do very poorly over the next ten years.
>
>They offer reasons stocks will do very poorly over the next
>10 years but I wouldn't call them very good reasons. Perhaps I'm
>prejudice but I don't think "technical analysis" is any better than
>reading tea leaves in predicting the future.

I'm not sure what you mean by "technical analysis" here. (I presume you don't mean than you dislike analyses which contain numbers.)

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