Growth in market value may occur, but historically only at the rate of inflation.
Typical picks include stocks that are down after announcing disappointing earnings but historically rally.
But historically most education funding is done at the state level, at the local level.
But historically, a much wider gap in relations has existed between Haiti and the Dominican Republic since colonial times.
This rationalized the market at 1350, an elusive number today, but historically consistent rather than pie in the sky.
There are some bargains among the very small regional banks, but historically, smaller lending portfolios has meant higher risk.
Brand building is essential for many industries, but historically professional services firms have been reluctant to invest in brand building.
But historically, insolvencies are rare--only 100 or so life insurers have failed in the past 40 years, according to Gallanis' organization.
Small companies are riskier but historically more rewarding than big blue chips.
Likewise, some might view a price-to-sales per share multiple of 3.2x as excessive, but historically speaking the market has been willing to pay between 5.7x and 11.1x.
But historically, investors with diversified balanced portfolios who took a total return approach to managing their investments in retirement were able to make this 4% withdrawal rate quite consistently.
Less obvious, but historically better for shareholders in terms of higher stock prices, companies can reward existing shareholders by using free cash flow to reduce the total number of shares outstanding.
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Some may argue that the present, wider high yield spread is a function of the low Treasury yields, but historically there has been little correlation between the spread-versus-Treasuries and nominal Treasury yields.
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But historically far fewer meaty dramatic roles, which are beloved by the academy, have been written for or awarded to actors of color, and women behind the camera are greatly outnumbered by men.
When asked about his opinion on VBlock (Cisco, VMware, EMC combined initiative), Stevens said he sees tremendous value in it but historically all vertically integrated stacks have failed and therefore Brocade is taking an open approach to the converged infrastructure idea.
Speculation had been rife, in light of the discovery of the Higgs boson announced in July, that Peter Higgs or his colleagues may have been in the running for the prize, but historically the prizes tend to honour discoveries after a period of years.
But Dell historically had a brand reputation of quality products with an excellent service experience.
Republicans say they want to cut spending but have historically proven as uncommitted to it as their advice-givers.
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But helicopters, historically volatile and prone to cost-cutting demands by governments, may be GKN's weak link.
Apple is not the first but Apple has historically perfected the user experience (read software) and form factor.
She said she was fascinated by the figure, but supposed that historically, Protestants had better access to employment, and were less likely to have emigrated.
Times are somewhat grand in commodity-rich locales at present, but as has historically been the case, U.S. monetary authorities eventually wake up to their monetary errors, and when they do, the commodities priced in dollars will fall substantially, and with it, a lot of production that was made to appear viable by the illusion of a falling dollar.
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South Korea may be ethnically homogeneous, but turf politics has historically divided the electorate along geographical lines.
Americans take for granted that material abundance boosts society, but such thinking is historically rare.
The Saturn V engines could be priceless historically, but hard to put a cash value on.
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They have been kind of a slower grower historically, but they have got some new management in.
Chinese government support for solar demand has lagged its manufacturing support historically, but that might be about to change.
Switzerland received 299 kilograms of metal from Russia last month after none in January, but the figure is historically small, analysts said.
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On a price-to-sales basis 2.3x to 6.5x has proven to be a normal market valuation historically, but it is currently only 1.2x.
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