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December 01, 2023

Stock Market Bubble

S&P 500 Highly Overvalued Today

S&P 500 Highly Overvalued Today

Stock Market Bubble
Updated May 7, 2021 The P/E ratio is a classic measure of any security’s value, indicating how many years of profits (at the current rate) it takes to recoup an investment in the stock. The current S&P500 10-year P/E Ratio…

Yep… It’s a Stock Market Bubble

Stock Market Bubble
Any way the Austin Report looks at Stock charts we see a bubble— a big dangerous bubble.  Here’s a chart and commentary provided by Statista.Com with their opinion. ”One way of looking at stock valuations is the market value of all…
The Beginning of the End of Old Wall Street

The Beginning of the End of Old Wall Street

Stock Market Bubble
Wall Street craziness persists— get-rich-quick options, tech stock only rallies, cloud stocks, cryptocurrencies, bonds paying less interest than inflation, bubble Stock prices, green energy hype, electric cars, blockchains, and ETFs for anything. Is this investing or gambling? Then there are…

Stock Bubble Warning

Stock Market Bubble
Even the biggest, most perfectly formed financial bubble… bursts eventually. The pressure of outside forces— or a sudden, unexpected pin prick can wipe out years of impressive Stock profits in just a matter of days. Bubble Bursting Event of Epic…
Market Crashes—S&P 500

Market Crashes—S&P 500

Stock Market Bubble
Like spectacular market peaks, market crashes have been a persistent feature of the S&P 500 throughout time. The forces underpinning each rise and fall are often less clear. Take the COVID-19 crash, for example. Despite lagging economic growth and historic…
Diamonds Are Forever, Businesses Are Not

Diamonds Are Forever, Businesses Are Not

Stock Market Bubble
We were somewhat surprised to see this graphic from Innosight on the short lifespan of America’s largest companies, the BlueChips of the S&P 500 index. In our mind, the largest and best companies surely had been around for a long…
No One Likes A Party Pooper

No One Likes A Party Pooper

Stock Market Bubble
A great measure of the true value of a Stock Market is to take current price and divide by the earnings… not just the P/E of one Stock, but a wide index like like the biggest 500 Stocks— the S&P…