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The Everything Bubble [infographic]

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Post by thinkMOAR »

firebird84 wrote: post #9

Meh 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…

practically free indeed, vs the practically have to pay for keeping my savings on a savings account... shrugs in discontent (tax is higher on my savings then the interest i get, for those that didn't understand)

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Post by joubert »

empath75 wrote: post #5
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #3

Whoa - five stocks (Amazon, Facebook, google, Apple and ?) account for most of the gains in SP500 this year?! Seriously?

Netflix

In fact, Netflix was the #1 performer twice in the last 5 years. https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2017/01/22/will-netfl...

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Post by Varcht »

Toidiu wrote: post #19
firebird84 wrote: post #9

Meh 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.

You know, the last 10 years? Housing bubble pops hurt, the rest? Meh

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Post by thriftwy »

We have ever-increasing amount of money in the system (banks figure out ways to create money)

But there isn't much real growth in useful, appreciating assets. E.g. most of production capacity these days operates with ever-thinner profit margins.

Therefore money flows in a few vehicles still considered performing. Such as real estate. This creates a lot of bubbles in the absense of real growth.

This is not unlike to when a ship sinks, everybody clutters at the ever-smaller area still over water.

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Post by kristiandupont »

karllager wrote: post #17
mercer wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 (…

There are several issues to be aware of with the way society and technology is evolving for sure, but when you just shout "wake up sheeple!" and offer nothing but hand waving, you are not contributing much in that regard.

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Post by protonfish »

0xcde4c3db wrote: post #7

I have no great difficulty believing we're due for another pop, but the only one of these that I find remotely alarming is the auto loan one. The rest seem to be one of: utterly irrelevant (number of cryptocurrencies in circulation?), lacking any frame of reference, or readily attributable to the economy still not being really recovered from the 2008 crisis.

I'm not concerned. Auto loans are inherently secured - they just repo your car. And unlike houses, auto prices are not drastically over valued.
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