{"id":47033,"date":"2019-07-02T10:50:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47033"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:50:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T15:50:25","slug":"the-economic-bubble-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47033","title":{"rendered":"The Economic Bubble Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/articles\/economicbubblestocksbondsandrealestate\/\">The Economic Bubble Bath<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/internationalman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Image-econmomic-bubble.jpg\" alt=\"economic bubble stocks bonds\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of a long, tiring day, we may choose to treat ourselves to a soothing bubble bath. Surrounded by steaming water and a froth of sweet-smelling bubbles, it\u2019s easy to forget the cares of everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This fact is equally true of economic bubbles. When the markets are up, we\u2019re inclined to feel as though life is rosy. Unfortunately, it does seem to be the norm that investors fail to recognize when a healthy up-market transforms into a dangerous bubble. We tend to be soothed into overlooking the fact that we\u2019re in hot water, and economically, that\u2019s not an advantageous situation to be in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Periodically, any economy will experience bubbles. It\u2019s bound to happen. Human nature dictates that, if the value of an asset is on the rise, the more success it experiences, the more we want to get in on the success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sadly, the great majority of investors have a tendency to fail to educate themselves on how markets work. It\u2019s easier to just trust their broker. Unfortunately, our broker doesn\u2019t make his living through our success; he makes it through brokering transactions. The more buys he can encourage us to make, the more commissions he enjoys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s been said that a broker is \u201csomeone who invests your money until it\u2019s gone,\u201d and there\u2019s a great deal of truth in that assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so, we can expect to continue to witness periodic bubbles in the markets. They\u2019ll occur roughly as often as it takes for us to forget the devastation of the last one and we once again dive in, only to be sheared once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we\u2019re presently seeing an economic anomaly \u2013 a host of bubbles, inflating dramatically at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Bubble Bath At the end of a long, tiring day, we may choose to treat ourselves to a soothing bubble bath. Surrounded by steaming water and a froth of sweet-smelling bubbles, it\u2019s easy to forget the cares of everyday life. This fact is equally true of economic bubbles. When the markets are up, [&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":[1806,4899,6228,11658],"class_list":["post-47033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bubble","tag-economic-bubble","tag-international-man","tag-jeff-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47033","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=47033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47034,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47033\/revisions\/47034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}