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Dow 36,000
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The New Strategy for Profiting from the Coming Rise in the Stock Market
By Kevin A. Hassett, James K. Glassman
Posted: Saturday, January 1, 2000
Dow 36,000
Dimensions: 8.75'' x 6''
294 pages
Times Books
Publication Date: September 1999
Paperback
ISBN: 0-609-80699-8
Hardcover
ISBN: 0812931459

  • A radically new way to determine what stocks are really worth
  • Why the Dow is still poised to zoom
  • Why the financial establishment is wrong
  • Why stocks are actually less risky than bonds
  • How to build a maximizing portfolio and invest without fear
James K. Glassman,
former financial columnist for the Washington Post and Reader's Digest and the host of the PBS show TechnoPolitics and the CNN show Capital Gang Sunday, is a resident fellow at AEI. He is also a host of www.TechCentralStation.com, a website that covers technology, finance, and public policy.

Kevin A. Hassett is a resident scholar at AEI who formerly served as a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is coauthor, with R. Glenn Hubbard, of The Magic Mountain: Defining and Using a Budget Surplus.



Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: The Idea

  • Introduction: Why Stocks Are Such a Good Buy
  • The History of Stocks: A New Interpretation
  • Dividend and Conquer
  • A Conservative Look at How High the Stock Market Can Go
  • A More Reasonable Look at How High the Market Can Go
  • Unrisky Business
  • The Jungle Stocks Live In
  • Today, When Stocks Were Still Cheap

Part II: In Practice

  • How to Profit from the Dow 36,000 Theory
  • How to Build a Winning Relationship with Your Stocks
  • Making Sense of Mutual Funds
  • Getting Started in Stocks
  • Which Stocks Should You Buy?
  • Stocks, Bonds, or Cash? How to Allocate Your Assets
  • The Wealth Explosion

Glossary



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Related Links
Review in the Wall Street Journal
Another Review in the Wall Street Journal
Dow 36,000 Revisited (2002)
Debate: Will the Dow Ever Hit 50,000?
Order from Barnes and Noble
Coverage in the Atlantic Monthly  
Review in Fortune
Review in the Chicago Tribune
Review in the Kansas City Star
Review in the Weekly Standard
Glassman on Authoring the Book
Dow 36,000? It's Still a Good Bet (2001)


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