MarketWatch recently published an article called The next 10 investment bubbles by Wallace Witkowski, and I thought this would be a nice follow-up to last week's commentary on the Two-Term…
Bubble #1: US Equities: The US bull market is almost five years old and the S&P 500 is up 170% since its March 2009 low. The last 10% correction ended…
Bubble #2: Momentum Stocks: Well -- there are definitely a few stocks like Tesla Motors and Facebook, to name a few, that have risen above fundamentals. Over the past year,…
Bubble #3: Bitcoin: Some of you may have heard of Bitcoin — an alternative currency not controlled by central banks (which adds to their allure). As you would expect, many,…
Bubble #4: Investment Grade Scotch: Wow - who would have thought Scotch whiskey would make the list... but it turns out that investors have significantly increased the price of rare…
Okay, I'm going to summarize a few categories now to save time, so here they are.
Bubble #5 & 6: Property Values in London and China: Property prices in London are on the up, with prices up 10% in October alone and set to rise further…
Similarly, property prices in China rose nearly 11% in October - the fastest rate of growth since June 2011 - reviving fears of a new bubble and prompting the government…
Bubble #7: US Farmland: Prime US farmland has seen prices jump 20% over the past year to $8,400 an acre - a sustained steep upward trend since the late 1980's…
Bubble #8: Cattle and Beef Futures: Cattle futures have been at an all-time high since November 1984, from just over a dollar a pound earlier in the year to $1.34…
Bubble #9: Student Loan Debt: Over the past decade, federal student debt has tripled to more than $1 trillion as of June 2013, with default rates soaring since the 2007…
Bubble #10: Tech Startups, IPOs: The market for IPOs has been very bubbly lately with gains of 100% on the first day in some cases. In recent IPOs, Twitter is…
So there you have it - 10 potential investment bubbles... which I plan to follow through the end of Obama's term. And while we've identified these ten, I wouldn't be…
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