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But what Siegel and Thaler ask--and what many of us investors have long asked--are two key questions: 1) Why is the risk premium as high as it is?
As to the first, Siegel and Thaler use a series of complex equations and models to find (as have other academics whom they cite) that the risk premium over the past two centuries has been almost insanely high.
Birr (Ethiopia) means `silver' and was the name used beginning in the 18th century to designate the Maria Theresa thaler, an Austrian coin which circulated in countries around the Red Sea.
The word dollar was used in 17th-century England to refer to the thaler and became the official name of the United States monetary unit by an Act of the Continental Congress, on July 6, 1785.
The name was adopted by Germany in 1875 for a coin to replace the thaler.