They were so enamored with Holmes, so swept up in the unicorn feeding frenzy of the
private equity bubble, that they failed to conduct basic due diligence.
A potential
US equity bubble would be driven, in my mind, by a growing and near historic sense of «nowhere else to go» with global capital (that is scared of debasement and confiscation).
-- Deleveraging and the reverse wealth effect: I've written in lots of places how debt bubbles, like those involving mortgages, take a lot longer to work through
then equity bubbles.
That doesn't encourage us to abandon our concerns, but it does make us less aggressive about investment stances that rely on any immediate unwinding of what we continue to view, along with 1929 and 2000, as one of the three most
reckless equity bubbles in the historical record.
Fed -
driven equity bubble, market exuberance, and political uncertainty led many investors to high - dividend stocks.
And offensive, because (more cynically) I believe putting the QE genie back in the bottle may prove a near - impossible task... ultra-low (even negative) interest rates & unprecedented monetary stimulus could still unleash a completely
unprecedented equity bubble.
«Everybody talks about the
private equity bubble — remove it from your lexicon,» said Tobias Levkovich at the Reuters Investment Outlook Summit in New York.
A potential
US equity bubble would be driven, in my mind, by a growing and near historic sense of «nowhere else to go» with global capital (that is scared of debasement and confiscation).
«That in turn spells trouble for the consumer who has needed the backdrop of
an equity bubble to sustain even mediocre consumption.»
The eagerness of investors to chase prevailing trends, and their unwillingness to concern themselves with predictable longer - term risks, drove a successive series of speculative advances and crashes during the past decade - the dot - com bubble, the tech bubble, the mortgage bubble, the private -
equity bubble, and the commodities bubble.
«I don't see much evidence of
an equity bubble,» Bernanke says.
Market confidence was also shaken by the authorities» clumsy intervention to prop up the stock market after the popping of
the equity bubble in June.
See Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle for a review of the total return arithmetic behind these estimates, and Yes, This is
An Equity Bubble for additional background on our present concerns.
The wealth of
this equity bubble accrues to the few and it is entirely ephemeral.
Her remarks intensified conversations about a potential
equity bubble.
Equity bubbles are different from debt bubbles.