By: greenbackd
Here’s the updated St Louis Fed’s FRED on Warren Buffett’s favored market measure, total market capitalization-to-GNP:
The Q1 2013 ratio – the most recent point – is 110 percent.
According to the FRED data, the Q1 2000 TTM/GNP peak ratio was 158 percent, and the Q3 2007 TTM/GNP peak was 114 percent. The average for the full period – Q3 1949 to Q3 2012 – is 69 percent. The last time the market traded at a below-average ratio was Q1 2009.
Here’s the log version:
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