http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/09/dow-36000-2/ âThis book will convince you of the single most important fact about stocks at the dawn of the twenty-first century: They are cheapâ¦.If you are worried about missing the marketâs big move upward, you will discover that it is not too late. Stocks are now in the midst of a one-time-only rise to much higher groundâto the neighborhood of 36,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average.â -Glassman and Hassett, introduction, Dow 36,000 > Call it the audacity of cluelessness: Let us congratulate James K. Glassman and Kevin Hassett, the authors of the incredibly money losing advice in their book Dow 36,000, on their 10 year anniversary. The book forecast that lofty number would be obtained in 3 to 5 years; it was published precisely 10 years ago today. In the ensuing decade since this book (and I use the term lightly) was published, the Dow is still below where it was 10 years ago, rather than tripling in price. The Nasdaq remains more than 60% below its highs of one decade ago.