Unexpected Returns: Understanding Secular Stock Market Cycles

Winner ForeWord Magazine Bronze Award for Best Business/Economics Book of the Year. This investment book uses extensive full-color graphics to explain the fundamentals of the markets-an essential resource before reading how-to books or engaging investment advice. It is a unique combination of investment art and investment science that enables the reader to differentiate between irrational hope and a rational view of current market conditions. more

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Posted: Dec-13-2008

Makes me embrace VOLATILITY....Simply I can not put it down

As an MBA, I always assumed that markets give a fixed return (as we average the returns over a period). I never thought about volatility and economic conditions explicitly. I used to hate volatility as it makes the world uncertain. After reading this book I am embracing volatility and realized...

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Posted: Aug-14-2008

Excellent Analysis!

One of my favorites. I'd recommend this book for any novice investor or student of economics. Offers a unique approach to understanding the secular cycles without going into anything unusual such as the kondratieff wave theory. This book provides a good understanding of both, bull and bear...

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Posted: Feb-17-2008

challenging but woth the effort

I ordered this book after seeing Mr. Easterling on TV because he had reinforced some of my own thoughts and suspicions. Without a doubt the author makes a compelling case for why the U.S. stock and bond markets are likely to underperform for the foreseeable future. This is not an easy or fast...

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Posted: Dec-25-2007

Investing in Stocks Starts Here

Ed Easterling gets right to the matter at hand - what actually happens to individual investors and not what is supposed to happen given the vortex of hyporbole one finds in the financial media.Ed un-links actual corporate performance from stock price and shows that stock price has a life of its...

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Posted: Oct-24-2007

Very good book, with unconventional ideas

This book brings fresh and unconventional ideas to the table. The author challenges the very popular buy and hold strategy, and presents a very good case on how using it in the next few years might not be very rewarding.His idea is that we are entering a secular bear market, similar to the one...

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Posted: Jun-27-2007

Excellent for the Non Financial Dude

I am not in the financial business, but purchased this book to help me just understand the market for my 401K and mutual funds. After reading it I am starting to feel like I have an understanding of what I'm looking for to start to purchase stocks in companies. This book explained everything...

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Posted: Jun-11-2007

Good Concepts, But Goes Astray

Unexpected return has an excellent compilation of historical data and does a good job of presenting the case for secular bull and bear markets and the components that influence market results over the longer term. However, it goes badly when the author attempts to provide a formula to predict...

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Posted: Mar-21-2007

Past history is indication of future results

Excellent book on the market. It is not a 'How to get rich fast' book, but one that explains the dynamics of the stock market and how the returns correlate. The tables, graphs, and figures are extremely well done and the book is well laid out. If you want to learn about the market (or playing...

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Posted: Mar-16-2007

One of the best

This is a book that was referred to me on the chatroom at Dorsey Wright Associates. [...] you can view his information. I am a CFP, CIMC and have an MBA infinance form Pepperdine University CA. The information is layed out so anyone can understand it. Yes I do make recommendations on where the...

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Posted: Nov-26-2006

Don't Buy and Hold, Says Ed Easterling

Ed Easterling's "Unexpected Returns: Understanding Secular Stock Market Cycles"(2005)deals with the issue of bullish and bearish "seasons" in the stock market--such as the U.S. bear markets of 1901 to 1920, 1929-1932(the Great Crash)and 1966 to 1981 and bull markets from 1921 to 1928 (the Roaring...

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