Year-to-date, 2008 has been one of the most painful years for stock market investors in the past 180 years. In the November 2008 Research Perspective, we touch on a number of reasons why, based on wide variety of data, the stock market appears attractive. Valuations are the lowest they have been in the better part of two decades; stocks have gone nowhere in the last ten years; and when Warren Buffett writes on the stock market, it is worth paying attention.