Plan, yes. I’m still piecing all the data together and I plan on putting together a comprehensive data chart. I did this one very quickly. I’m still learning how to use Excel I’m a complete beginner on making the chart look good but a comprehensive chart is in the works. For now, I’ve found an update that Carol Loomis wrote in Fortune Magazine on Feb. 2009. Her graph is much prettier than mine and it gave me new insight to the information they are using in the graph. It very well could be that the Wilshire 5000 was not compared Buffett’s ratio as it leaves out OTC stocks and according to this article, Carol Loomis says that the data represents OTC stocks. So, I’m going to work with a few other indexes today in comparing the data – one of them being the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index which includes OTC stocks. Aw, the enjoyment of never ending research
Jim, can you put the the time of the highlights?
Plan, yes. I’m still piecing all the data together and I plan on putting together a comprehensive data chart. I did this one very quickly. I’m still learning how to use Excel
I’m a complete beginner on making the chart look good but a comprehensive chart is in the works. For now, I’ve found an update that Carol Loomis wrote in Fortune Magazine on Feb. 2009. Her graph is much prettier than mine and it gave me new insight to the information they are using in the graph. It very well could be that the Wilshire 5000 was not compared Buffett’s ratio as it leaves out OTC stocks and according to this article, Carol Loomis says that the data represents OTC stocks. So, I’m going to work with a few other indexes today in comparing the data – one of them being the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index which includes OTC stocks. Aw, the enjoyment of never ending research
Here’s the article link: http://money.cnn.com/2009/02/04/magazines/fortune/buffett_metric.fortune/index.htm
Actually, if you’re interested, maybe you could help me in putting all this data together. Two minds working together is better than one.