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- 🚨The US stock market has rarely been this expensive
🚨The US stock market has rarely been this expensive
The Shiller P/E ratio sits at one of the highest levels in history
The Shiller P/E ratio on the S&P 500 is currently higher than it has been 96% of the time in history, making the market extremely expensive by long-term standards.

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The price to average of the last 10 years of earnings, adjusted for inflation, is 38x, the 2nd-highest level since the Dot-Com Bubble.
This suggests that future market returns will be below average over the next few years.
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