The “buy-on-dips stock market confidence index” that we compile at the Yale School of Management has been falling gradually since 2001, and has fallen especially far lately. The index is the share of people who answered “increase” to the question, “If the Dow dropped 3% tomorrow, I would guess that the day after tomorrow the Dow would: Increase?
Ve skutečnosti možná ochabuje ochota po nenadálém propadu podpořit trh. „Index důvěry v nákup po poklesu na akciovém trhu,“ který sestavujeme na fakultě managementu Yaleovy univerzity, se postupně už od roku 2001 snižuje a obzvlášť výrazně klesl v poslední době.