tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post5676184506614519542..comments2024-01-27T19:26:32.604-05:00Comments on Bubble Meter: More bubbles to comeDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11169148764438565562noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-66755063857785913482009-12-13T15:02:38.865-05:002009-12-13T15:02:38.865-05:00they definitely keep it interesting. All we can d...they definitely keep it interesting. All we can do is go with the flow and identify opportunities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-82633354390180051812009-12-07T15:29:11.632-05:002009-12-07T15:29:11.632-05:00I agree with "Ponzi." I would add that r...I agree with "Ponzi." I would add that regulation (as Wells wrote), plays a role as well.<br /><br />If the OTC derivative market wasn't opaque, we may not had nearly the bubble we did. The theory of economists (bubbles don't happen because the market is always right) would have been true(r). The risk buried within complicated bonds would have been more visible.<br /><br />Regulated markets would make them more predictable, allowing investors to make more informed choices. <br /><br />I'm not talking about central-planning. Just helping buyers have the same information which buyers do. That kind of transparency. Not a one-sided relationship, like when you buy a used car and the seller knows it's a lemon.<br /><br />Transparency like that is what has attracted foreign capital. I fear what will happen is, if we become more like less-developed nations (corrupt, "rigged," markets that resemble casinos) global wealth will be invested in less-developed nations. <br /><br />We are giving away an opportunity to put the world's money to our own use, and continue to lead the world economically. (Instead, today the only option is to put that money to the use of the top-of-food-chain players at Goldman, JPMorgan, Citibank, et. al. It's their "rigged" game that benefits.).Mark Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-25135416785836997522009-12-07T11:45:52.309-05:002009-12-07T11:45:52.309-05:00Tuskenrayder is right.
I can say with some certai...Tuskenrayder is right.<br /><br />I can say with some certainty that there is indeed too much money saved when interest rates can go negative. That's just plain irrational.<br /><br />It doesn't mean that the US has too much savings... on the contrary, the country is doing the rational thing; when someone pays you money to borrow, you do it. The same way that home buyers were acting rationally in the short-run.<br /><br />Countries like China are manipulating their economies by holding far too much in currency reserves and not enough in actual spending.<br /><br />It doesn't justify us spending like drunken sailors, but it does explain WHY we can continue to do so without the normal ill effects. I just fear the hangover from this episode.<br /><br />ChuckChuck Ponzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02563190232678709911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-6823144591307511192009-12-07T11:36:55.044-05:002009-12-07T11:36:55.044-05:00Here is the anti-Bubble that's waiting to happ...<i>Here is the anti-Bubble that's waiting to happen, which will result in a Bubble for anyone already conveniently invested in carbon trading and green energy</i><br /><br />I agree, the free market is not the answer to reversing the unsustainable climate devastation. Scientists sounded the alarm decades ago, now it's too late for reduction to effectively reverse course. Reduction can only buy some time for science and technological innovation to find a solution. Cap-and-Trade is the next credit default swap.Tuskenraydernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-54816831971702010602009-12-07T11:21:54.524-05:002009-12-07T11:21:54.524-05:00Please read the source article before you comment....Please read the source article before you comment. It makes you look like an ignoramous when you allow the biased contributors of this blog to spoon-feed you the cherry-picked passages that best fit their naive worldview.Tuskenraydernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-26668190050609068792009-12-07T11:20:23.857-05:002009-12-07T11:20:23.857-05:00Here is the anti-Bubble that's waiting to happ...Here is the anti-Bubble that's waiting to happen, which will result in a Bubble for anyone already conveniently invested in carbon trading and green energy -- such as Al Gore... and private wealth interests that coordinated this crap.<br /><br />http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126013960013179181.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStoriesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-21865929604769475072009-12-07T11:03:48.484-05:002009-12-07T11:03:48.484-05:00Savings glut
How is this not an indictment agains...<i>Savings glut</i><br /><br />How is this not an indictment against those that have been saving judiciously during the last two decades? <br /><br />Wow, so the bubbles were generated by all you stupid savers who didn't buy mcmansions and big screen tvs. Shame on you!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-61343644784172857582009-12-07T10:43:08.054-05:002009-12-07T10:43:08.054-05:00This guy believes "The real culprits are thri...This guy believes "The real culprits are thrifty Germans, and state-owned enterprises in China – along with governments of other countries, of course, turning a blind eye to the escalating problems."<br /><br />He has evidently never heard of the long-time international central banking families who own most of the infrastructure of the planet. Probably the same people who paid the writer to suggest it was someone else to blame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13164186.post-24179742359126763742009-12-07T08:31:26.622-05:002009-12-07T08:31:26.622-05:00Real estate agents just love all the clap-traps th...Real estate agents just love all the clap-traps the govt is putting together to create a new bubble. After all, that's the only thing the tax credit was about: create sales volume to line their pockets.<br /><br />We as a populace and our government have learned nothing.kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03747819300907778223noreply@blogger.com