# Prof. Richard Sylla on recent patterns in the stock market

1 Faculty News March 7, 2014 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthasharf/2014/03/07/five-years-into-bull-market-bears-still-waiting-for-the-drop-that-hasnt-come/) -- “'Five years is a long time for a market to expand without having a major drop,' says [Richard Sylla](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/richard-sylla), a professor of financial history at New York University’s Stern School of Business."

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