So Few Protective Puts, So Many Aggressive Calls

There have been a number of stock bubbles in history. Yet few rival the infamy associated with 1929’s epic crash or 2000’s tech wreck. Perhaps ironically, today’s post-pandemic bubble may be more egregious. For example, an average of four measures...

How a Market Pullback Can Become a Panic

Healthy corporations have manageable debt levels, rising revenue and increasing profits. Less healthy companies? Sales stagnate, earnings diminish and debt loads explode higher. Even before the pandemic, there were signs of corporate stress. Debts relative to gross...

A Penny for Your Thoughts

There has never been a larger wave of equity inflows. In other words, everybody wants in the stock pool. And not just the largest companies with the strongest balance sheets. Volume for the least viable, most aggressive stock assets — penny stocks — has...

Unnerving Excess in 3 Charts

Extremely easy access to cheap money. That’s what inflated the dotcom blimp in the late 1990s. That’s what pumped up the housing balloon in the 2000s. And that’s what is responsible for the “Everything Bubble” today. How frothy? Here are...

The Unrestrained Reflation of Today’s Stock Bubble

The stock market appears unstoppable. It is setting all-time records on a daily basis. On the other hand, the number of keyword searches for the term ‘stock market bubble’ has never been higher. The number of term searches is two times greater than in any...