The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives, Illustrated Lessons From Financial Cycles and Trends, Revised and Updated Edition

Index

Acquisitions, 54–55, 72–73

Agricultural land values, 136–139

Alternatives, stocks vs., 52–53

Animals for investment, 196–197

Annual sales, stock prices and, 28

Antibusiness attitudes, 143

Art, investing in, 52

Assets, replacement cost of, 54

Auto sales, 152–153

Bank of England, 82–85

Bear market trends, 36, 64–65

Bonds

AA, 105

earnings and, 20–21

foreign, 102–103

interest rates and, 30

prices of, 1896–1912, 78–79

railroad, 30, 76–81

vs. stocks, 20–21, 36, 104–105

Book value, 24

Britain, See England

Budget, federal, 184–185

Bull market trends, 64–65, 76

Business activity, 1790–1986, 146–147

Business cycles, 1790–1925, 149–150

Calculator, electronic, 4

Canadian market, 40–43

Capital expenditures, 26

Capital gains tax, 20

Capital spending, 158–159

Car sales, 152–153

Cash flow, 26

Cattle industry cycles, 202–203

Chapter 11, preferred stock and, 70

Charts, use of, 1–2, 4–6, 204–206

Commercial paper, prime, 32, 108–109

Commodities, 92–96

gold and, 124–125

prices of, 1982–1986, 130–131

wholesale prices of, 120–121

Common stocks

foreign, 102–103

rate of return on, 88–89

vs. preferred, 74–75

Compound interest rates, 90–91

Consols, 110–111

Consumer Price Index, 122–123

Cowles Commission data, 16

Crash of 1929, 11

P/E ratio and, 14, 68–69

warnings of, 70

Crude oil

prices of, 106–107

supply, 166–167

Cycles, 134

business, 1790–1925, 148–149

hemlines and, 194–195

hide and leather, 202–203

Kondratieff Wave and, 190–191

stock market, 64–65

sunspots and, 192–193

wheat harvests and, 200 ...