bubbles

Bubble or boom? Investors ask the question as markets hit all-time highs.

Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years. Previous equity superbubbles had a series of distinct features that individually are rare...

Some persist with their claims the market is about to collapse, or at the very least, that technology stocks are a bubble. But they’ve been saying that for the last...

It’s not every day you get the opportunity to speak with a legend like Jeremy Grantham. But I’ve been lucky enough to do so twice in recent weeks (the first time,...

Over the last few months, increased risk-taking by investors has led to ballooning prices for loss-making businesses, IPOs in unprofitable firms, and speculative...

The long, long bull market since 2009 has finally matured into a fully-fledged epic bubble. Featuring extreme overvaluation, explosive price increases, frenzied...

On Thursday, Sydney time, I had a whirlwind interview with Harry Dent, former uber-bull on Wall Street who nowadays predicts the crash of all crashes, while at the...

Do Low Rates of Interest Really Support Markets? On 10 September, I concluded that they don’t. This article explores one of this result’s major implications: investors...

Over the last 400 years, there has been no shortage of bubbles in various markets, ranging from Tulips in Amsterdam (1600s) to US dot.com stocks (2000). Thankfully,...

At the end of 2018 the US Federal Reserve backflipped on their plans to continue hiking interest rates. Why? Well to put it simply, it seems that they underestimated...

You may have seen an article recently about the head of the Dutch central bank, Klaas Knot, who is also a governor on the ECB, saying that “the picture resembles that...