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The Everything Bubble [infographic]

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Re: The Everything Bubble [infographic]

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Post by 0xcde4c3db »

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.

Re: The Everything Bubble [infographic]

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Post by karllager »

Fun 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 real analytic question to ponder is: where exactly does this destructive element of capitalism originates from (left as an exercise for the reader).

Re: The Everything Bubble [infographic]

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Post by firebird84 »

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 error.

5 Stocks accounting for most of growth is troublesome when corrected, but still not catastrophic. If we lose ALL of that growth then we go back to 2016 levels? Ok.

Re: The Everything Bubble [infographic]

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Post by mercer »

karllager wrote: post #8

Fun 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!
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