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news about something that is fundamental
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--that's the efficient markets.
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Every time the stock market moves
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it's because there was some news about what?
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Well, it's about present value.
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The efficient markets theory, in its simplest incarnation,
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says that the price is the expected present value of future dividends.
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What I did, in a paper that I published in 1981, is I said,
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well let's just plot the present value of dividends through time.
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That's how I constructed this long time series back to 1871;
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nobody else was looking at it.
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Typically, researchers want the best data,