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WALL
STREET
REVALUED
Imperfect Markets
and Inept Central
Bankers
ANDREW SMITHERS
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
WALL
STREET
REVALUED
Imperfect Markets
and Inept Central
Bankers
ANDREW SMITHERS
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
Published in 2009 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
© 2009 Smithers & Co Ltd
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smithers, Andrew.
Wall Street revalued : imperfect markets and inept central bankers / Andrew Smithers.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-470-75005-6
1. Capital market–United States. 2. Monetary policy–United States. 3. Finance–
United States. 4. Banks and banking, Central–United States. I. Title.
HG4910.S565 2009
332'.04150973–dc22
2009019921
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978-0-470-75005-6
Set in 11.5/13.5 pt Bembo by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong
Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall
Contents
Foreword
v
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Synopsis 15
Chapter 3 Interest Rate Levels and the Stock Market 25
Chapter 4 Interest Rate Changes and Share Price Changes 37
Chapter 5 Household Savings and the Stock Market
41
Chapter 6 A Moderately rather than a Perfectly Effi cient
Market
49
Chapter 7 The Effi cient Market Hypothesis
57
Chapter 8 Testing the Imperfectly Effi cient Market
Hypothesis
67
Chapter 9 Other Claims for Valuing Equities
81
Chapter 10 Forecasting Returns without Using Value
91
Chapter 11 Valuing Stock Markets by Hindsight Combined
with Subsequent Returns
97
Chapter 12 House Prices
105
Chapter 13 The Price of Liquidity – The Return for
Holding Illiquid Assets
109
Chapter 14 The Return on Equities and the Return
on Equity Portfolios
115
Chapter 15 The General Undesirability of Leveraging
Equity Portfolios
121
Chapter 16 A Rare Exception to the Rule against
Leverage
131
Chapter 17 Profi ts are Overstated
137
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