Fed-Driven U.S. Stock Advance Leaves Grantham Waiting for Bubble
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Adjusting U.S. stock-market indicators for Federal Reserve policy since the 1980s shows a bubble has yet to come, according to Jeremy Grantham, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.’s chief investment strategist.
The attached chart highlights one gauge, Yale University Professor Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio, that Grantham cited yesterday in a quarterly letter to shareholders. The P/E is based on average earnings for the previous 10 years, rather than four quarters of profit.