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The Everything Bubble [infographic]
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#12Whoa - five stocks (Amazon, Facebook, google, Apple and ?) account for most of the gains in SP500 this year?! Seriously?
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#13Fun fact: Capitalism depends on crises - they are not the exception, they are the rule. People forget that and treat it as something that happens, like a natural catastrophe. This is unfortunate, because this is a purely man-made thing, but still, even the high end media is kind of left in the dark about this central theme (let alone economists, who sometimes get lost in the details of their specialisation). Now the…
It's called a business cycle:
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#14This infographic is about as useful as that "legendary investor" who claims the world is going to end in chaos every year.
What indicators are predicting a "pop" or that this is a "bubble?" What exactly are they predicting will happen?
Just seems like a lot of numbers and infographic fear mongering otherwise.
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#15Meh to almost everything here except maybe housing. Corporate debt is high because DEBT IS STILL CHEAP (fed is changing that). Of course they're going to borrow fuckloads of money, it's practically free by some measures! The indexing "bubble" is actually a correction for a lack of value from active funds. I don't expect the correction to be corrected. The cryptocurrency bubble is tiny. 65 billion? That's a rounding e…
> 5 Stocks accounting for most of growth is troublesome when corrected, but still not catastrophic.
Yes -- this is the whole point of owning a broad index.
You get exposure to the highest-performing stocks -- what those actual companies are changes over time.
And there's usually another company to step up and fill the gap when one of the leaders falls.
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#16Fun fact: Capitalism depends on crises - they are not the exception, they are the rule. People forget that and treat it as something that happens, like a natural catastrophe. This is unfortunate, because this is a purely man-made thing, but still, even the high end media is kind of left in the dark about this central theme (let alone economists, who sometimes get lost in the details of their specialisation). Now the…
Crises aren't necessarily destructive, or something that needs to be prevented. When railroads were first built across the USA there was a huge bubble in railroad stocks. Many investors lost everything, but the country ended up with some great transportation infrastructure.
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#17Fun fact: Capitalism depends on crises - they are not the exception, they are the rule. People forget that and treat it as something that happens, like a natural catastrophe. This is unfortunate, because this is a purely man-made thing, but still, even the high end media is kind of left in the dark about this central theme (let alone economists, who sometimes get lost in the details of their specialisation). Now the…
Well I'm glad you cleared all this up for us!
I'm sorry for being short on content, but I wish, more people would really go deeper into theory and open their eyes on the things around them and realize, that capitalism is an extremely aggressive beast that has sucked up everything, that is not itself.
Three days ago, I wondered (time and again) about all the fuzz about this site called facebook - within ten years it took something, that was not really exploited (social relations) and made it a first class business. Startup hubs are still dreaming of the next social startup - meaning exploiting special kind of relations (neighbours, potential partners, coworkers, what have you).
And we won't stop here. Think your dreams belong to you? Maybe today, but I can see large enterprises exploiting your very being for profit, soon. You find that disturbing? But why?
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#18It is a fiat bubble.
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#19Meh to almost everything here except maybe housing. Corporate debt is high because DEBT IS STILL CHEAP (fed is changing that). Of course they're going to borrow fuckloads of money, it's practically free by some measures! The indexing "bubble" is actually a correction for a lack of value from active funds. I don't expect the correction to be corrected. The cryptocurrency bubble is tiny. 65 billion? That's a rounding e…
> Meh to almost everything here except maybe housing.
Care to elaborate more on the housing.
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#20The "worth" of something is an irrelevant metric. What is the actual debt value?