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What we call this is the--I want to emphasize it,
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I'll write this again--the equity premium puzzle.
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That term was actually coined by economists,
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Prescott and Mehra;
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it's now in general use. That is,
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it just seems that stocks so much outperform other investments.
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For Jeremy Siegel, in the latest edition of his book,
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the equity premium is 4% a year since 1802.
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That's almost--no that's more than 100--that's 206 years.
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Why would that be and can you believe that?
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One question that comes up is that maybe--
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this is for the U.S. data--