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How much are US equities over-valued?

By John Schroy, on February 26th, 2007 | 2 comments
A rush to exit the stock market ...

Commonsense analysis shows that US equities are at least 40% overvalued, a conclusion supported by many academics and John Burr Williams’s formula.

This suggests that many retirement plans, based on equity investments, may be in trouble, if (or better, when) stocks fall to reasonable values.

This article, using John Burr Williams’ famous formula, shows how the market may be valued.

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