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Bursting the BubbleROME: "Get-rich-quick": for thousands of people around the world, that is what investing in the stock market means nowadays.
Old people invest their savings and pensions from home computers; young men and women give up working for salaries to seek a big pay-off in the stock options on offer from dot.com firms.
Given the global market tumult of the past ten days, examining the historical data about the performance of stock markets is a mandatory sobering experience for investors old and new and everywhere.
In Italy between 1961 and 1994, for example, stock investments brought an average return of around 6% more than investments in treasury securities.
Certainly, there have been extraordinary periods, such as the 1950s, when the differential between investing in the stock exchange in Milan and treasury securities climbed to over 22%.
In other words, long-term investments in stocks do yield more than investments in government securities, but the heightened volatility means that decades must pass before we can safely conclude that an average stock investment has indeed brought higher returns.
The history of "new economy" stocks is too short to allow anyone to say whether the extraordinary performance of the stock exchanges in more or less all countries over the last few years is a temporary speculative boom, or an irreversible result of the new economy.
Until now, even considering recent gyrations, almost all stock exchanges have been rising at breakneck speed.
In sum, the lesson of the new economy is not that one becomes rich without any effort, simply by speculating on the stock market.
That may not be enough, and the company’s stock is reflecting the market’s concerns, as is its Standard & Poor’s credit rating.
I see parallels between the Bush administration's pursuit of American supremacy and a boom-bust process or bubble in the stock market.
Most stock market booms are aborted long before the extremes reached by the recent bull market.
Oil prices could fall, stock markets could celebrate, consumers could resume spending, and business could step up capital expenditures.
France and Europe place much stock in multilateralism, which supports burden sharing.
Five years may be too short a period for historians to judge the full significance of the event, but it does offer an opportunity to take stock.
Notwithstanding sharp reductions in debt service traceable to the Fed’s zero-interest rate subsidy, the stock of debt is still about 116% of disposable personal income, well above the 43% average in the final three decades of the twentieth century.
Borrowing costs fell dramatically for the governments of Italy and Spain; stock markets rallied; and the recent decline in the external value of the euro was suddenly checked.
His choices included Dick Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, which failed spectacularly in September 2008, and Stephen Friedman, a Goldman Sachs board member, who resigned as chair of the New York Fed’s board after being accused of inappropriately trading Goldman stock during the financial crisis.
For example, Greece’s debt stock, including required bridge financing under the IMF program, should peak at around 150% of GNP in 2014; much of this debt is external.
Their fears started with the “flash crash” of May 2010, when, in a matter of 30 minutes, major US stock indices fell by almost 10%, before recovering rapidly.
So far, it has led only to volatile flash crashes and sudden changes in bond yields and stock prices.
Mitigation attempts to reduce these flows and thus reduce the rate of increase of the stock of carbon in the atmosphere, with the ultimate goal of stabilizing or reducing it to safe levels.
A study published in 2005 by economists Geert Bekaert, Campbell Harvey, and Christian Lundblad found that when countries liberalize their stock markets, allowing them to operate freely without government intervention, economic growth rises by an average of one percentage point annually.
It is no surprise that stock markets liked the results of the stress tests that US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner administered to America’s big banks, for the general outcome had been leaked weeks before.
So far, Geithner seems to have succeeded in his “tests,” as the stock market has indeed more than stabilized, with prices of bank shares such as Citigroup and Bank of America quadrupling from their lows.
In fact, the stock market bottomed out last winter.
A RAND study projects that by 2015, China’s military expenditure will be more than six times higher than Japan’s, and its accumulated military capital stock will be roughly five times higher (measured at purchasing power parity).
Today, through a combination of irresponsible Republican-led tax cuts, a slowing economy, the bursting of the stock market bubble, and a massive increase in defense spending, huge deficits dominate the fiscal horizon.
In France, for example, social housing organizations have rapidly deployed €320 million of EU money in the last few years to improve energy efficiency in existing housing stock.
The stock market rewarded banks that made that bet.
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