Shiller Abandons P E Ratio’s and Does a Roubini

By: Andrew_Butter

Oh dear, I suppose all good things must come to an end one day. Today, tragically, we must mourn the sad demise of “trailing P/E ratios” as the infallible predictor of the future.

Using long term analysis, Professor Robert Shiller, macromarkets chief economist at Yale University and the co-creator of the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, told CNBC on Friday that the S&P 500 may reach 1430 by the year 2020.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40862634/

But now the latest thing is Long-Term-Analysis”!! Mm, that sounds impressive!! I wonder if that’s got anything to do with LTCM, could this be a new direction for the “science” of economics from he who announced that the NASDAQ was a bubble, a week before it popped?

"The problem with the traditional price earnings ratio is that earnings are just too volatile from year to year," Shiller said.

I was quite interested in Shiller abandoning his P/E idea since I’ve had at least one hundred rabidly hostile comments from P/E groupies in response to the “completely lunatic and delusional predictions” that I have made about the S&P 500 over the past two years based on the “Non-Science” of BubbleOmics.

Completely crazy predictions like… “S&P 500 will bottom at 675” (correct), “then rally strongly” (correct) “up to 1,200” (correct) “then there will be a 15% reversal” (correct) “but that won’t last long” (correct). My favourite comment in that regard was “This is the dumbest article I have ever read on Seeking Alpha”!

Shiller (the P/E Guru) Andrew Smithers (the Tobin guru) and Roubini (the Broken-Clock guru), have been saying that the S&P 500 is overvalued since March 2009, the best prediction by far was Roubini’s “Dead-Cat-Sucker-Bounce” on 14th March 2009.

Now all is revealed…1,430 before 2020!!!

WOW…the precision is mind-boggling, no mention of “about” or rounding up to 1,500 or anything like that, although he does cover himself with “may”. So presumably there is a 25% chance that it may NOT reach 1,430 by 2020?

Well here’s what I think; I think the S&P 500 will reach 1,430 before 2014 and it might even reach it next year.

That’s based on analysis of 100 years of data that I did two years ago, and the “valuation model” was developed strictly in accordance with International Valuation Standards.

You can find the latest version of that here: http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article25287.html

By Andrew Butter

Twenty years doing market analysis and valuations for investors in the Middle East, USA, and Europe; currently writing a book about BubbleOmics. Andrew Butter is managing partner of ABMC, an investment advisory firm, based in Dubai ( hbutter@eim.ae ), that he setup in 1999, and is has been involved advising on large scale real estate investments, mainly in Dubai.

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