{"id":15621,"date":"2020-10-25T09:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icebreakerexecutive.com\/?p=15621"},"modified":"2020-10-25T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T09:10:51","slug":"protecting-and-inflating-the-tech-bubble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/?p=15621","title":{"rendered":"Protecting and inflating the tech bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We\u2019re floating inside a full-blown, central bank confidence balloon, and all it takes to burst this is a flick of the psychological switch.&#8221; &#8220;The modern-day financial technologists have developed a system to kick the can down the road \u2014&#8221; Whether it\u2019s investing in profitless corporations, junk bonds, or real estate, investors have embraced the absurdity of buying risk assets while entering the biggest recession in the modern era. &#8220;Central banks consume everything, even assets outside their remit.&#8221; &#8220;The madness of crowds forces investors to front-run monetary and fiscal stimuli while ignoring everything else.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;In August 1720, the South Sea Company collapsed when the business could not support a 50% dividend payment \u2014 shares fell back to pre-bubble levels, and the mania had ended.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;In the end, all we\u2019ve done is rewrite the history books but with a modern twist. No authority has ever defeated economic gravity, and it has no plan to surrender anytime soon.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/winningthinking.uk\" data-attribute-index=\"2\">winningthinking.uk<\/a> gives you a grip of the psychological switch to deploy or just keep fueling the madness, the choice is yours. In 1720 some smart people were duped too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"break-words\"><span dir=\"ltr\">source https:\/\/medium.com\/concoda\/the-first-stock-market-bubble-on-record-shows-how-this-one-will-burst-dbb232bbe04b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=newaction&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6726056737410949120\" data-attribute-index=\"0\">#newaction<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=emergingscenario&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6726056737410949120\" data-attribute-index=\"1\">#emergingscenario<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/dYts6zA\" data-attribute-index=\"3\">https:\/\/lnkd.in\/dYts6zA<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We\u2019re floating inside a full-blown, central bank confidence balloon, and  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winningthinking.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}