# Shiller CAPE ratio

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-22**: Valuation metrics at extreme levels — The Buffett indicator stands at about 238 and the Shiller CAPE at 42.15; Bill Dudley writes in Bloomberg this week that the market is in bubble territory.
- **2002-10**: Bear market bottoms with heavy losses — By October 2002 the Nasdaq Composite has lost 78% and the S&P 500 has lost 49% from their early-2000 peaks.
- **2000**: Dot-com bubble begins to deflate — The technology-heavy market retreats, marking the start of a multiyear decline.
- **1999-11**: Shiller CAPE peaks near 44 — The Shiller CAPE ratio reaches 44.19, the highest level in more than 100 years, months before the internet bubble begins to deflate.
- **1996**: Greenspan warns of irrational exuberance — Alan Greenspan's speech asks how to know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values; global markets sell off briefly but the dot-com bubble continues inflating.

## Recent coverage (1 stories, network-wide)

### CAPE at 42.15 and Buffett Ratio 238: Bubble Warning Echoes 1999
2026-08-23 00:45:19 · Sector: finance · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

Two of the market's most respected valuation gauges are flashing levels last seen near the late-1990s peak: the Buffett indicator at 238 and the Shiller CAPE at 42.15. Former NY Fed president Bill Dudley calls the market a bubble, and the 1996-2002 historical arc shows how severely such extremes can unwind.
Full story: https://getfinancebrief.com/story/finance-cape-42-buffett-ratio-238-bubble-warning

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