The stock market is often benchmarked against nominal GDP to assess relative valuation:
But there are no rules about what else you can compare it to, like an inflation benchmark:
Or personal income:
Or even relative to home prices (which is especially interesting given the recent surge in home valuations):
While many of these charts suggest the market is beyond historical valuation averages, there are still some benchmarks that show some degree of reasonable pricing:
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I'd love to see S&P 500 / Nominal GDP going back even further, even back to say 1900. Is our current high result higher than the dotcom era and/or the Roaring 1920s?