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32,000 Thursday – Dow Touches Another Record

Dow 32,000! I guess it's time to read that book by Glassman and Hassett from 1999 – as that was their prediction at the time for where we'd be in 5 years.  Sure it's 22 years later but, hey, better late than never, right.  At the time, with the Dow at 12,000, they said: The single most important fact about stocks at the dawn of the twenty-first century: They are cheap….If you are worried about missing the market's big move upward, you will discover that it is not too late. Stocks are now in the midst of a one-time-only rise to much higher ground–to the neighborhood of 36,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average. The Dow was pushed down by the bursting of the dot-com bubble as the NASDAQ peaked in 2000 and bottomed out in 2002, and by the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Dow fell below 8,000 in 2002, remained below 12,000 until 2006, and below 30,000 until later 2020 and now, here we are at 32,000 (for a moment), this morning. At the time, the book was largely discredited as misstating the risk characteristics of equity securities as equivalent to U.S. Treasury fixed income securities, it is commonly believed discredited for predicting a grossly inflated stock market. The point is, everyone sounds like a genius when telling you to follow a trend – for as long as the trend holds out.  When the trend reverses, however, it's more like " who could have seen that coming? "  Well, rational people for one thing.  Water boils at 212 degrees and you can put water on the stimulus of a 500 degree burner and it will heat up very quickly and the trend from 180 to 200 may suggest the water will be at 280 degrees in 10 minutes but it never will be, will it?  That's because, at a certain point, Psysics takes over and limitations are reached.     IN PROGRESS    

Dow 36, 000: The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the  Stock Market: Glassman, James, Hassett, Kevin, Glassman, James K., Hassett,  Kevin A.: 9780812931457: Amazon.com: BooksDow 32,000!

I guess it's time to read that book by Glassman and Hassett from 1999 – as that was their prediction at the time for where we'd be in 5 years.  Sure it's 22 years later but, hey, better late than never, right.  At the time, with the Dow at 12,000, they said:

The single most important fact about stocks at the dawn of the twenty-first century: They are cheap….If you are worried about missing the market's big move upward, you will discover that it is not too late. Stocks are now in the midst of a one-time-only rise to much higher ground–to the neighborhood of 36,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average.

The Dow was pushed down by the bursting of the dot-com bubble as the NASDAQ peaked in 2000 and bottomed out in 2002, and by the September 11 attacks in 2001. The Dow fell below 8,000 in 2002, remained below 12,000 until 2006, and below 30,000 until later 2020 and now, here we are at 32,000 (for a moment), this morning.

At the time, the book was largely discredited as misstating the risk characteristics of equity securities as equivalent to U.S. Treasury fixed income securities, it is commonly believed discredited for predicting a grossly inflated stock market.

The point is, everyone sounds like a genius when telling you to follow a trend – for as long as the trend holds out.  When the trend reverses, however, it's more like "who could have seen that coming?"  Well, rational people for one thing.  Water boils at 212 degrees and you can put water on the stimulus of a 500 degree burner and it will heat up very quickly and the trend from 180 to 200 may suggest the water will be at 280 degrees in 10 minutes but it never will be, will it?  That's because, at a certain point, Psysics takes over and limitations are reached.  

 

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