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Ken Fisher is best known for his prestigious "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine, where his twenty-three-year tenure of high-profile calls makes him the fourth longest-running columnist in Forbes' ninety-year history. Ken is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments, a multi-product money management firm with over $40 billion under management. His success has ranked him #271 on the 2007 Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. He is a regular in the media and has appeared in most major American finance or business periodicals. Fisher also recently authored the New York Times bestseller The Only Three Questions That Count, which is also published by Wiley.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: A Reintroduction To The Waltz | |
| Introduction | |
| Stock Market Visualizations | |
| Price/ Earnings Ratios: Then and Now Dow Jones Industrials Price/Earnings Ratio, 1915-1986 | |
| In Case You Didn't Get It the First Time The Stock Market vs. Its P/ E Ratio, 1871-1937 | |
| Earning a Good Return in the Market The Long-Term Tie Between Earnings and Stock Prices, 1926-1971 | |
| Earnings Yields: Stocks Versus Bonds Earnings Yield on the S&P 500 vs. Yield On High-Grade Corporate Bonds, 1946-1974 | |
| Price/ Dividend Ratios Provide Long-Term Vision Price/Dividend Ratios, 1920-1985 | |
| Price-to-Book Ratios: Playing It by the Book The Market's Price-to-Book Ratio, 1921-1986 | |
| Price/Cash Flow Ratios: A Hidden Twist S&P 400 High Annual Price/Cash Flow Ratio, 1945-1986 | |
| An Advertisement for Super Stocks and Forbes Sears, Roebuck & Company's Stock Price, 1926-1955 | |
| Mr. and Mrs. Financial-Real Split Personalities Railroad Stocks and Bonds, 1860-1935 | |
| Never a Timer Be: 56 Years of Stocks and Interest Rates Short-Term Interest Rates vs. the Stock Market, 1919-1978 | |
| Value Line Industrial Composite: All the Stats that Are Fit to Print Value Line Industrial Composite, 1970-1986 | |
| Wealth Indexes for Classes of Securities, and the Winner Is . . .Wealth Indexes of Investments in the U.S. Capital Markets, 1925-1985 | |
| Invest Overseas and Diversify? British Stocks vs. Dow Jones Industrials, 1958-1977 | |
| Stock Prices Abroad: Seven More Market Mirrors Stock Indexes in Seven Countries, 1970-1980 | |
| The 51st Estate Canadian vs. U.S. Stock Prices, 1962-1971 | |
| Stock Prices Versus GNP Stock Market Indexes and Variations in GNP, 1955-1974 | |
| The Premium Price of Growth Price/Earnings Multiples of Emerging Growth Stocks as a Percentage of the S&P 500 P/E, 1960-1986 | |
| Growth-Stock Gyrations Hambrecht & Quist Growth Index, Hambrecht & Quist Technology Index, Standard & Poor's 400, January 1970 to September 1986 | |
| "IPO" Means It's Probably Overpriced Number of Initial Public Offerings, 1969-1985 | |
| "Wake Up, Folks" Stocks vs. Five Investment Alternatives 1975-1985 | |
| Takeover Tactics in Relation to Assets Stocks, Infl ation, and Merger and Acquisitions Activity, 1968-1984 | |
| The Silent Crash No One Noticed The Dow Jones Industrial Average as Adjusted for Infl ation, 1920-1985 | |
| Moving with the Moving Average The 40-Week Moving Average of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1965-1977 | |
| All the News That's Fit to Print Stock Prices vs. News Items, 1949-1968 | |
| Stock Prices Versus Recessions Standard & Poor's Index of 500 Common Stocks and Cyclical Declines in the Economy, 1948-1977 | |
| Nine Major Stock Market Cycles Long-Term DJIA Showing Bull and Bear Trendlines, 1929-1977 | |
| Roaring Twenties Revisited? Comparison of Dow Jones Industrials of the 1920s vs. the 1980s | |
| Price/ Earnings Ratios Can Be Deceiving Price/Earnings Ratio, 1928-1929 | |
| A Clear Warning Stock Price Indexes, 1927-1929 | |
| The Big Boys Don't Always Buy Cheap Mergers Record, 1919-1928 | |
| Preferred Stocks Shouldn't Be Comparison of Industrial Common and Preferred Stocks, 1908-1932 | |
| The 2 Percent Rule The Panic of 1907 | |
| Remember What the Rich Man Forgot The Average Market Price of the 20 Leading Railroad and 12 Leading Industrial Stocks and of 5 Standard Bond | |
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