By Steve Sailer
11/03/2021
From CNN:
Dow closes above 36,000 for the first time
By Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business
Updated 5:34 PM ET, Tue November 2, 2021
New York (CNN Business) — The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 36,000 mark for the first time Tuesday following a gain of about 140 points, or 0.4%. On Monday it had briefly risen above 36,000 but didn’t end the day there.
… The Dow 36K prediction was first made by journalist James Glassman and economist Kevin Hassett in October 1999. The Dow was hovering just above 10,000 when their book, “Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market” was published.
Of course, the Dow is a bogus 19th century measure with multiple flaws, such as kicking out flagging stocks that are dragging the index down and replacing them with up-and-comers to make it go up-up-up.
Still, things have changed since c. 1980 when it was consistently below 1,000.
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