James Mackintosh Wall Street Journal Stock Market Bubbles
One day the bust will be the big one, but for now the pullback in AI-related stocks has been almost completely offset by gains elsewhere The S&P 500 is only 1.6% below its record, and the equal-weighted version—a measure of the average of all stocks in the index—hit a new high this past week. The post-financial-crisis era of easy money has led to repeated booms and busts in small, and sometimes not-so-small, parts of the market in the past 15 years. Jag tycker det är skriande uppenbart att räntan världen över är för låg och att en större del av stimulanserna borde ske via finanspolitiken. Rolf Englund blogg 5 december 2009 My best guess on the reason for all these bubbles is a mix of easy money, the gambling instinct and hopes for new technology. These are the standard ingredients of bubbles from canals and railroads to the Great British Bicycle Bubble. But they’ve been on steroids since the 2007-09 financial crisis. Where the money comes from varies—in the 2010s it was...