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Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:30 pm Fed will buy corporate bonds in addition to corporate bond ETFs.

Sure seems like the Fed is pulling out all the stops to try to keep the stock market up. Like maybe they can tell it ready to crash.

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:37 pm

If we were to do the computation based on this linear graph, the area above the regression line (maybe not a totally accurate line, but approximately right) since 1995 is roughly 20,000 point-years. Over the next 30 years, the index would need to average 650 points below the regression line to balance the areas out. That would probably mean the index would need to spend considerable time below 400 over the next 10 years. In other words, unlike the 1930s, it would need to fall 90% and stay down 90% for years, rather than falling 90% and then recovering.

If long term trend growth were to fall substantially below 3%, I think even that would be optimistic, especially if long term trend growth were to turn negative for even a few years.

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** 15-Jun-2020 World View: Law of Mean Reversion

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:37 pm > Would the areas need to be computed based on a log chart or a
> linear chart?

The Law of Mean Reversion refers to linear averages -- the average
value over a sufficiently long period of time should always be
the same. If you apply it to an exponentially growing value,
then you have to use the logarithm.

In 2007, a web site reader took one of the P/E ratio graphs that
I had posted, and added the colors purple and green:

• S&P 500 Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E1) 1871-2007

The Law of Mean Reversion says that the green regions have to have the
same area as the purple regions. Since 2007, there have been ALL
purple regions and NO green regions. Therefore, the reversion will be
much more severe than in the 1930s.

If the value being tested is an exponential growth value, then areas
of the purple and green regions would have no meaning, since the areas
aren't comparable. So it's necessary to take the logarithm for the
areas to be comparable.

John wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 7:16 pm ** 15-Jun-2020 World View: Law of Mean Reversion

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 3:37 pm > Would the areas need to be computed based on a log chart or a
> linear chart?

The Law of Mean Reversion refers to linear averages -- the average
value over a sufficiently long period of time should always be
the same. If you apply it to an exponentially growing value,
then you have to use the logarithm.

In 2007, a web site reader took one of the P/E ratio graphs that
I had posted, and added the colors purple and green:

• S&P 500 Price/Earnings Ratio (P/E1) 1871-2007

The Law of Mean Reversion says that the green regions have to have the
same area as the purple regions. Since 2007, there have been ALL
purple regions and NO green regions. Therefore, the reversion will be
much more severe than in the 1930s.

If the value being tested is an exponential growth value, then areas
of the purple and green regions would have no meaning, since the areas
aren't comparable. So it's necessary to take the logarithm for the
areas to be comparable.

As long as the growth rate of the economy and profit margins are roughly constant (or exhibit somewhat predictable cyclicality) over time and there are still positive earnings, PE should give a good approximation.

Since 1995 (25 minus 14 times 13 plus adding an estimate of 6 times 12 for the period between 2008 and 2020), the purple areas of the graph since 1995 appears to be about 200 PE-years, and if the mean reversion were to occur over the next 30 years, the PE would need to average about 6 over the next 30 years. That would probably imply PEs below 4 for several years during the next decade, and an S&P below about 400 for several years, as profits and profit margins are also likely to fall.

Do I think the above will happen without the economy collapsing into negative growth and the stock market going to zero?

Well, I don't because the Fed has pulled too much growth forward and the normal boom bust rhythm of the economy that allows growth to return and recovery to be possible (green shoots!) during a recession or depression has been broken.

But the mean reversion numbers show that a decades long depression is possible if that doesn't happen.

Also, I believe it may be overly generous to use 30 years for mean reversion if a normal 20 year crisis period is to be expected, but let's say the depression could drag on into the next high. I guess it's not impossible that mean reversion could occur over 20 years and PEs could dip as low as 2 while averaging 4.

vincecate wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 4:03 pm

Higgenbotham wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:30 pm Fed will buy corporate bonds in addition to corporate bond ETFs.

Sure seems like the Fed is pulling out all the stops to try to keep the stock market up. Like maybe they can tell it ready to crash.

My thought was is this the best idea they can come up with? Really? I mean, these guys and gals must be geniuses. They know exactly what to do to save the economy and stock market. Buy junk bonds. Yeah, that's the ticket. How is that different than Davey Daytrader on Robinhood buying a bankrupt company like Hertz? I know, I know, the Fed will tell us it really is different, it's not printing money, and it's being done to meet their mandate of full employment.

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One month after the inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War got underway .
The real reason for the war is that . . .
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