A lot of valid criticism already about this "info graphic" (advert).

Also not proof of "a bubble", but more interesting to me are the four metrics presented graphically here https://isthestockmarketgoingtocrash.com/

And it's fun to watch those astronomically large debt numbers increasing in real time.

Let's say everything written here is accurate, not cherry picked, and fully contextualized.

Even assuming all that, I'm not sure this site could ever convince me it is a 'problem', given the clear purpose of this site is to sell me something to fix that 'problem'.

That said, this infographic is missing a lot of context, and basically any sort of rigorous analysis.

This infographic isn't very convincing. It shows a bunch of forms of valuation and debt have drastically increased in the last 7 years, but that doesn't alone mean it's a bubble. You need to establish that the rate of growth is the same type of thing that preceded other corrections. You need to show that the growth is irresponsible or problematic.

I believe we are in a bubble, because the valuations of a lot of companies defy all real logic, and for a number of other reasons I won't get into because it will just devolve into an argument about what I believe. But I still find this infographic lacking.

QE money inflated asset prices and low interest rates mean bonds don't deliver good return so people buy stocks instead. And since we have the looming pension crisis the we will need a lot more money printing.

If everything is in a bubble, what will pop the bubble? An interesting take is the baby boomers hit max earning power at 55 and buy a second house, but then around 65 or 70 they realize the don't need either big house and they downsize (which will create downward pressure on housing) and they want to annuitize their assets (sell non-dividend paying stocks, etc)

the choosen metrics seem very suspicious... "number of cryptocurrencies" doesn't mean anything other than it's easy to create one. bitcoin market cap growing means there's probably a bubble, but 65 billions is too small to trigger a systemic crash by orders of magnitude. putting the two close one to a other is a really cheap trick to make you feel like the monetary system is in danger. Same for tesla, it doesn't make any sense other than to show that stock is overvalued.

To call something a bubble you need to identify a market that's "bubbling", a whole area or sector. otherwise you've only identified a few assets.

housing market is more sensible, but bubble on the housing market have been announced for the last thirty years, and prices kept climbing. everywhere. maybe it's not a symptom of a bubble, but just that there's more and more people, and less and less places they want to live in.

What is supposed to be the relevance of stating that there are more cryptocurrencies than fiat currencies. It seems like stating that there are more cavalry troops than there are aircraft carriers. Both are true, but you have to be completely deluded to think that raw numbers equates to significance.

Re: crypto, it's relatively easy to get into and there seem to be a lot of success stories, so yeah, a lot of people jump into those which boosts the price to bubble proportions. I'm fairly sure we're going to see a crash after new year's, once tax evasion periods have passed.

But when it comes to the stock market, I think there's a lot of people that have gotten on board with that in recent years; at least from my own perspective, regular boring old savings account have gone from 5% or more down to 0.5% or even negative interest in some cases; this is probably due to EU-wide laws to help economic growth in the less economically well-to-do countries, but still.

On the plus side of that equation however, is that mortgage interest rates are still very low. I bought a house this year and fixed the interest for 30 years, I'm sure it's going to go up again soon enough.

I wrote http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2017/12/google-mozilla-and-debt... based on Twitter conversations with BrendanEich and others.

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