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Wall Street Revalued
By: Andrew SmitherseBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: Wiley
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In 2000 one of the world’s foremost economists, Andrew Smithers, showed that the US stock market was widely over-priced at its peak and correctly advised investors to sell. He also argued that central bankers should adjust their policies not only in light of expected inflation but also if stock prices reach excessive levels. At the time, few economists agreed with him, today it is hard to find those who would disagree.
In the past central bankers have denied that markets can be valued and that it did not matter if they fell. These two intellectual mistakes are the fundamentals cause of the current financial market crisis. In addition, a lack of understanding by investors as to how to value the market has also resulted in widespread losses.
It is clearly of great importance to everyone that neither these losses nor the current financial chaos should be repeated and thus that the principle of asset valuation should be widely understood.
In this timely and thought-provoking sequel to the hugely successful Valuing Wall Street Andrew Smithers puts forward a coherent and testable economic theory in order to influence investors, pension consultants and central bankers policy decisions so that thy may prevent history repeating itself. Backed by theory and substantial evidence Andrew shows that assets can be valued, as financial markets are neither perfectly efficient nor absurd casinos.
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| Title of Business & Economics eBook: Wall Street Revalued | |
| Release Date: 10-09-2009 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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| SKU | 9780470682692 |
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Wall Street Revalued
Chapter One
Introduction
This book is based on two principles: first, that assets can be objectively valued and, second, that it is extremely important that central bankers should adjust their policies when asset prices get substantially out of line with their underlying values. I seek to show that it was the denial of these two principles that led to the errors by central bankers which are the fundamental cause of our current troubles. The assets which are most liable to be badly mispriced are shares, houses, and private sector debts, including bonds and bank loans. In 2002, Stephen Wright and I wrote a paper explaining why the Federal Reserve should adjust its policy, not only in the light of expected inflation, but also if stock market prices reached excessive levels. But at that time we doubted whether "this view would yet receive support from the majority of economists". As I write, in March 2009, it is quite hard to find economists who disagree. Opinions tend to be moved more quickly by events than by arguments, and this change is no doubt the result of financial turmoil and the threat of a severe recession. I aim to show, however, that the change is sensible, soundly backed by evidence and capable of being supported by theory.
Financial turmoil and recessions are closely linked. Crashes do not occur randomly, but generally follow the booms which are associated with asset bubbles. When these are extreme, the subsequent turmoil is most severe. The three most extreme examples of modern times are today, Japan after 1990 and the US in the 1930s. Falling asset prices, among their many undesirable consequ
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