Re: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-29 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Thanks for that explanation, it's just like poetry (I'm not a professional econometrist and my brain is too clogged up right now for math). As far as I understand, the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2003 changed the tax regime for dividends up to 2008. Qualified dividends of d

Re: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-29 Thread Eugene Coyle
The Gordon Growth model, from some ten-year old testimony of mine.  Plus a little more, which I essentially learned from Robin Marris.  Sorry, the drawing doesn't show up here. Gene Coyle The Valuation Of A Utility's Common Stock     In order to consider how a utility's concern with competit

Re: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-29 Thread dsquared
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 03:23:40 -0500, Michael Pollak wrote: >Had there been such a miracle, then some > though not all of the > > higher valuations would be justified; if the S&P 500 > Index is selling on > > 20 times earnings, and productivity growth undergoes > a secular and > > permanent increase

Re: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-29 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
I've got the 'flu, but are you serious :-) See: http://www2.standardandpoors.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=sp/Page/In dicesBrowseMethodologyPg&l=EN&b=4&s=6&ig=48&i=56&r=1&xcd=500&f=3 There is nothing to explicate, because the math you cite is gobbledygook, the assumptions questionable and

Re: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-29 Thread Michael Pollak
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Martin Hutchinson (author of "The Bair's Lair") was quoted as saying: > During the latter years of the 1995-2000 share price rocket, Greenspan > joined with Wall Street shills in proclaiming a "productivity miracle" > that had moved potential U.S. economic growth onto a perman

Re: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-26 Thread Devine, James
he shouldn't be worrying about productivity growth. Rather, what's important is profitability trends... Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > The Bear's Lair: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme > By Martin Hutchinso

Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme

2003-11-26 Thread Eubulides
The Bear's Lair: Greenspan's Ponzi Scheme By Martin Hutchinson UPI Business and Economics Editor Published 11/24/2003 5:36 PM WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A Ponzi scheme requires three things in order to be (temporarily) successful: a massive source of outside money, a sophisticated P