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Chapter 3 · A Century of Stock-Market History: The Level of Stock Prices in Early 1972

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What to listen for

A long history of US stock prices, earnings and dividends shows that cycles of over-optimism and pessimism repeat.
Graham judges the market level of early 1972 by earnings yield versus bond yields. Listen for his caution.
The point isn't the forecast but the method: compare price with earnings and dividends, not with recent price momentum.
Zweig applies the same reasoning to the late-1990s bubble.

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Notes on Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor (revised edition, commentary by Jason Zweig), written by an AI from the owner's own recordings. No book text is published here. Not investment advice.