Bubbles, bubbles everywhere: Jeremy Grantham on the bust ahead
NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) – In this manic era of meme stocks, cryptocurrencies and real-estate bidding wars, studying the history of financial markets might seem a little dry and old-fashioned.
Except to Jeremy Grantham.
The chairman of the board of famed asset managers GMO is a certified bubble-ologist, fascinated by how and why bubbles emerge. Grantham studies classic ones like 1929, but – now in his eighties – he has also lived through (and called) numerous modern booms and busts, including the dot-com wreckage in 2000, the bull market peak in 2008 and the bear market low in 2009.
In case you did not know where this is headed: He says we are in a bubble right now.
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Buying condition keep dropping in US
moar stimulus checks are needed pic.twitter.com/QC3p61U9xu
— 🅰🅻🅴🆂🆂🅸🅾 (@AlessioUrban) July 23, 2021
Brutal Ponzi gains at ATH on a handful of key stocks while most stocks have actually been dumping like no tomorrow… Nasty scam t.co/OKIU53CZGm
— Mr Foxnose (@asymmetricalpha) July 23, 2021
This chart shows us, market expectations is const 70-90 on each PMI and without possibility to slow down… It's now priced to perfection…
Australian Services PMI just crashed to 42 … Few moments after Chinese credit impulse has vanished. No coincidence in Australia here… t.co/tvA2SFf78t
— GregTheAnalyst (@Analyst_G) July 23, 2021
Large Caps see a nice rally and are now down less than half a percent from a 52-week high.
Meanwhile, Mid, Small, and Micro Caps continue to struggle and are off 4-8% from prior highs.
The theme of the last few weeks has very much been about mega cap stocks driving the ship. pic.twitter.com/8seRErqv7G
— Andrew Thrasher, CMT (@AndrewThrasher) July 23, 2021
For those who think the S&P 500's Forward EPS has risen a lot pic.twitter.com/MfxQLryoKH
— Not Jim Cramer (@Not_Jim_Cramer) July 22, 2021
$spx breadth pic.twitter.com/SRrOE2U69c
— VIX Squared (@vixsquared) July 23, 2021
Bond markets on track…yield drop about weak #China economy, not delta variant. See China 1-year yields and economic momentum index @RealVision pic.twitter.com/KmtycfRfOy
— CrossBorder Capital (@crossbordercap) July 23, 2021
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