{"id":22964,"date":"2017-02-23T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22964"},"modified":"2017-02-23T19:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T00:56:00","slug":"virtually-everyone-agrees-that-current-stock-market-valuations-are-not-sustainable-and-that-a-great-crash-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22964","title":{"rendered":"Virtually Everyone Agrees That Current Stock Market Valuations Are Not Sustainable And That A Great Crash Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-headline\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/virtually-everyone-agrees-that-current-stock-market-valuations-are-not-sustainable-and-that-a-great-crash-is-coming\">Virtually Everyone Agrees That Current Stock Market Valuations Are Not Sustainable And That A Great Crash Is Coming<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/virtually-everyone-agrees-that-current-stock-market-valuations-are-not-sustainable-and-that-a-great-crash-is-coming\/stock-market-collapse-toilet-paper-public-domain-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11838\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11838\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Stock-Market-Collapse-Toilet-Paper-Public-Domain-460x306.jpg\" alt=\"Stock Market Collapse Toilet Paper - Public Domain\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a>Current stock market valuations are not sustainable.\u00a0 If there is one thing that I want you to remember from this article, it is that cold, hard fact.\u00a0 In 1929, 2000 and 2008, stock prices soared to absolutely absurd levels just before horrible stock market crashes.\u00a0 What goes up must eventually come down, and the stock market bubble of today will be no exception.\u00a0 In fact, virtually everyone in the financial community acknowledges that stock prices are irrationally high right now.\u00a0 Some are suggesting that there is still time to jump in and make money before the crash comes, while others are recommending a much more cautious approach.\u00a0 But what almost everyone agrees on is the fact that stocks cannot go up like this forever.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Dow, the S&amp;P 500 and the Nasdaq all set brand new record highs once again.\u00a0 Overall, U.S. stocks are now up\u00a0<a title=\"more than 10 percent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/02\/21\/us-markets.html\" target=\"_blank\">more than 10 percent<\/a>\u00a0since the election, and this is probably the greatest post-election stock market rally in our entire history.<\/p>\n<p>But stocks were already tremendously overvalued before the election, and at this point stock prices have reached a level of ridiculousness only matched a couple of times before in the past 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>Only the most extreme optimists will try to tell you that stock prices can stay this disconnected from economic reality indefinitely.\u00a0 We are in the midst of one of the most outrageous stock market bubbles of all time, and as\u00a0<a title=\"MarketWatch has noted\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/this-money-making-market-bubble-is-about-to-burst-2017-02-08\" target=\"_blank\">MarketWatch has noted<\/a>, all stock market bubbles eventually burst\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. stock market at this level reflects a combination of great demand, great complacency, and great greed.\u00a0<strong>Stocks are clearly in a bubble, and like all bubbles, this one is about to burst.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If corporations were making tremendous amounts of money, rapidly rising stock prices would make logical sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtually Everyone Agrees That Current Stock Market Valuations Are Not Sustainable And That A Great Crash Is Coming Current stock market valuations are not sustainable.\u00a0 If there is one thing that I want you to remember from this article, it is that cold, hard fact.\u00a0 In 1929, 2000 and 2008, stock prices soared to absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11370,14887,5983,6588,14888,4901,4919,1138,3783,14889,2731,14890,4404,5221,14891,753,7554,11615,14892],"class_list":["post-22964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-11370","tag-absurd-stock-prices","tag-economiccollapseblog","tag-financial-crash","tag-financial-crash-2017","tag-michael-snyder","tag-nasdaq","tag-stock-market","tag-stock-market-collapse","tag-stock-market-collapse-2017","tag-stock-market-crash","tag-stock-market-crash-2017","tag-stock-market-valuations","tag-stock-prices","tag-stock-prices-are-irrationally-high","tag-stocks","tag-the-dow","tag-the-nasdaq","tag-the-sp-500"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22965,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22964\/revisions\/22965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}