A recent article by F.William Engdahl responding to the notion that the proposed Iranian oil bourse is the driving factor behind a march to war with Iran. According to the author, the oil-for-Euros standard that the new oil exchange is supposed to create is an unrealistic outcome. Engdahl makes his case against the recently popularized notion of an Iranian oil bourse unseating the dollar's hegemoney in this editorial from Financial Sense.
With all the recent talk of a new bubble in the making, thanks in part to the Yellen Fed's continued easy money stance, I thought it'd be instructive to revisit our previous stock market bubble - in one quick chart.
So here's what a real stock market bubble looks like.
Here's what a bubble *really* looks like. InfoSpace in 1999-2001. $QQQ$BCORpic.twitter.com/xjsMk433H7
— David Shvartsman (@FinanceTrends) February 24, 2015
For those of you who are a little too young to recall it, this is a chart of InfoSpace at the height of the Nasdaq dot-com bubble in 1999-2001. This fallen angel soared to fantastic heights only to plummet back down to earth as the bubble, and InfoSpace's shady business plan, turned to rubble.
As detailed in our post, "Round trip stocks: Momentum booms and busts", InfoSpace rocketed from under $100 a share to over $1,300 a share in less than six months.
In a pattern common to many parabolic shooting stars, the stock soon peaked and began a…
So here's what a real stock market bubble looks like.
Here's what a bubble *really* looks like. InfoSpace in 1999-2001. $QQQ$BCORpic.twitter.com/xjsMk433H7
— David Shvartsman (@FinanceTrends) February 24, 2015
For those of you who are a little too young to recall it, this is a chart of InfoSpace at the height of the Nasdaq dot-com bubble in 1999-2001. This fallen angel soared to fantastic heights only to plummet back down to earth as the bubble, and InfoSpace's shady business plan, turned to rubble.
As detailed in our post, "Round trip stocks: Momentum booms and busts", InfoSpace rocketed from under $100 a share to over $1,300 a share in less than six months.
In a pattern common to many parabolic shooting stars, the stock soon peaked and began a…