It’s time for a reckoning in bubble assets. Not since 1999 have I seen ... Today’s speculators (and many hedge fund managers) are no different than the hapless day traders who lost their ...

The problem comes when the music stops and the wreckage spreads far beyond the assets that were inflated. After the housing bubble popped ... called "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries ...

Bubbles are banal: wherever markets in assets exist ... represent a bubble...and, if so, why this bubble is different? Financial bubbles can be distinguished and categorized along two dimensions.

What makes a bubble different is that the prices for a given class of assets or goods overshoot the implied market equilibrium price, remain persistently high, and even continue to climb rather ...

It’s been losing money for almost three years, and its book value -- what’s left if you sell off the assets and repay ... it should be seen in a very different light -- as a company whose ...

Soaring asset prices have lifted the market capitalization ... exceeding the housing-bubble peak of 5.8 times in 2006 and the tech-bubble peak of 5.1 in 2000.

There are too many signs of rampant speculation to be entirely comfortable with asset markets as they currently ... Have markets reached bubble proportions? To help answer this question, long ...

However, that rally is now being emphatically put in the shade by a different ‘alternative asset’: Bitcoin. For half a century, gold has been the haven that particularly retail investors have ...