Stock Data

Some questions about the validity of the data used by professor Jeremy Siegel in his book “Stocks for the Long Run.”

Does Stock-Market Data Really Go Back 200 Years?

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  1. David Merkel says:

    I have a signed first edition of the book, but I always wondered about early data quality, which if I recall, he didn’t spend much time on the technical details in his book, in order to make it readable for the average Joe.

    At least we have data back to 1871 — that’s more than enough for me to work with, even though we still have to remember that past is still not prologue.