Business Insider on 14 February 2014, in an article titled James Montier's Annotated CAPE Chart Is Brilliant wrote about an insightful chart James Montier used at a presentation in 2011 showing how the market always
reverts to the mean explaining why the market is currently overvalued and why future US stock market returns will not be anything to get excited about.
Not exact matches
Hulbert
explains that optimism with respect
to value stocks is essentially a bet that the market will
revert to the
mean: That is, «the most expensive stocks (i.e. growth) will eventually become less expensive, just as the cheapest stocks (value) will become less cheap.»
One thing that is for certain is that these oscillations
revert to the
mean over the long term, and can not be used
to explain a natural secular warming trend, which is what the climate sceptics seem
to be running on about recently.