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    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Alphaville presents: Pin the valuation on the electric vehicle SPAC

      VinFast VinFurious

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Ruchir Sharma
      The markets are alive with the sound of echo bubbles

      Investors refuse to give up on ideas that recently made them a lot of money

      A Japanese businessmen checks share prices on a digital display in Tokyo
    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      US equities
      Meme-stock groups have raised $5bn in 2 years since trading frenzy

      Cash bonanza enabled by retail investors fails to boost beneficiaries’ performance

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      FT Magazine
      What the poet, playboy and prophet of bubbles can still teach us

      Charles Mackay was wrong about a lot, but his wild life and times hold many lessons

    • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
      Leo Lewis
      SoftBank blazes a trail in losing money on tech bets

      The frothy valuations of some ‘visionary’ businesses resemble gaseous giants in an asset bubble universe

      Illustration of a person in a suit looking through binoculars. On each lens is a picture of a basket of golden eggs and the person holding the binoculars is using a gold crayon to draw more eggs on the lens
    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      John Thornhill
      The five things the tech bubble got right

      From the value of data to e-globalisation, some trends are here to stay

      Two rows of Tesla cars seen from above face each other in a parking lot
    • Monday, 16 May, 2022
      Happy Monday!

      Market bellyaches from SocGen’s Albert Edwards and Citi’s Robert Buckland

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      Is the Big Tech crash already over?

      Things are bad, but not nearly 2000-bad, argues J-Paul.

    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      Merryn Somerset Webb
      A market crash will depend on which bit of the equation investors got wrong

      Proper bubbles involve people convincing themselves that a high-profit, low-inflation environment will be permanent

      Miss Peach illustration of Merryn Somerset Webb column ‘Market crash will depend on which bit of the equation investors got wrong’
    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      ‘Insider sales’ among companies held by flagship Ark fund pick up

      Selling by executives and founders of portfolio groups comes at fraught moment for speculative tech shares

      Cathie Wood, founder and chief executive of ARK
    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Rana Foroohar
      When the Web3 bubble pops, real world assets will survive

      Forget the metaverse — industrial changes are what create long-term value across economies

    • Monday, 3 January, 2022
      Ruchir Sharma
      Ten economic trends that could define 2022

      From a slowing China to ‘greenflation’ in commodity prices, investors should take note of these forecasts

      A man walks in the main shopping area in Shanghai, China, against a backdrop of neon-lit shops. China dropped from one-third of global GDP growth pre-pandemic to one-quarter in 2021, raising speculation that it may have peaked as an engine of growth
    • Monday, 13 December, 2021
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      Men of leisure deflated by the great bicycle bubble

      A brisk look back at a market mania from the late 19th century.

    • Friday, 12 November, 2021
      Markets
      The Fomo rally: ‘fear of missing out’ helps fuel soaring markets

      Analysts worry about ‘obvious signs of froth’ as everything from stocks to cryptocurrencies soar

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    • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      Chamath joins the Metromile low club

      How not to invest like Warren Buffett.

    • Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
      Markets InsightRichard Bernstein
      Valuation not stories ultimately determines investment returns

      Tremendous liquidity in financial system has led to series of bubbles fed on hype over wondrous trends

      Montage of traders
    • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
      US equities
      GMO: bears are not having a picnic

      Follow the smart money and you just might never make it.

    • Friday, 10 September, 2021
      News in-depthPersonal Finance
      When is a market bubble not a bubble?

      Working out how much speculative excess there is in a market, whether housing or stocks, is tough

    • Thursday, 26 August, 2021
      Markets InsightPhilip Coggan
      Welcome to the great speculative era

      There are plenty of tools for investors, including Spacs and cryptocurrencies

      The logo of Robinhood
    • Friday, 23 July, 2021
      Merryn Somerset Webb
      What the new Beanie Baby bubble tells us about the future of markets

      The boom may continue but there are lots of ways to imagine it going wrong

      Miss Peach illustration of Merryn Somerset Webb column ‘What the new Beanie Baby bubble tells us about the future of markets’
    • Sunday, 6 June, 2021
      Ruchir Sharma
      Don’t dismiss market bubbles — some leave lasting progress behind

      For every few dozen flops, there can be companies that provide long-term innovation

    • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      AMC’s popcorn paradoxes Premium content

      Is all reason dead?

    • Wednesday, 19 May, 2021
      InterviewFinancial services
      Silicon Valley veteran warns of ‘very frothy’ markets

      Sandy Robertson sees ‘a lot of junk’ among Spacs in late phase of rally

    • Monday, 22 March, 2021
      FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
      ARK’s Tesla model gish gallops to $3,000 per share

      We are to expect 40 per cent auto insurance operating margins? Sure.

    • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
      Martin Wolf
      Economies can survive a stock market crash

      If a correction is due to higher rates and stronger growth, it would not matter much — except to investors

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