Just for the sake of putting the stock market in proper perspective, let's take a look at the S&P 500 from January 1871 through September 2009, as plotted against the index' trailing year dividends per share. First, in normal scale:
And now on a logarithmic scale:
Ain't reversion to the mean grand?
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