Abstract
This paper is a data-based analysis of how and why U.S. common stocks secularly rose in concert with falling interest rates. It finds that falling rates explained 76% of the increase in stocks between 1982 and 2019. Growth in financial wealth significantly outpaced growth in the real economy and jobs, fortuitously benefitting financial investors but not working families. Economists term this “asset price inflation.
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