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{{a|g|}}I am no financial wizard, readers, but I’m getting the sense the market just feels a bit toppy. This a detect not by reference to an unusual contango in the front-month Brent Crude contract — any experts reading will know at once I am not even sure what that is — nor because of non-farm payroll data, nor mean-reversion in the residential real estate market (ditto, ditto), but because sensible investors are doing plainly bonkers things.
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}}I am no financial wizard, readers, but I’m getting the sense the market just feels a bit toppy. This I detect not by reference to an unusual contango in the front-month Brent Crude contract — any experts reading will know at once I am not even sure what that is — nor because of suspicious softness non-farm payroll data, nor mean-reversion in the residential real estate default rates (ditto, ditto), but because folks just seem to be doing plainly bonkers things.


In March 2021 it seemed as good a time as any to start compiling signs of the forthcoming [[apocalypse]]. Now as we all know, apocalypses can stay irrational a lot longer than I can stay sober, so I can’t make any definitive call as to ''when'' we are going into the abyss, but, as sure as death, taxes and rice-pudding we are, and there signs it might be soon. So, to keep me company while I load up the van with shotgun cartridges and tins of spam, and with feeling, but in no particular order:
There is no time like the present, and here, in early March 2021 I thought I would start compiling signs of the forthcoming [[apocalypse]].  


*[[Bitcoin]] (1) existing; (2) having a value greater than nil; (3) staying in existence for even after one obviously speculative bubble in 2018 (4) continuing to stay in existence for three years; and (5) having ''another'' blatantly obvious speculative bubble, three times bigger than the first one; (6) TESLA blowing a billion and a half on bitcoin at the top of the speculative bubble.
Now as we all know, apocalypses can stay irrational a lot longer than I can stay sober, so I can’t make any definitive call as to ''when'' we are going into the abyss, but, as sure as death, taxes and rice-pudding we are, and there signs it might be soon.
*[[Tesla]] having a bigger market cap of $800bn than the next NINE biggest auto manufacturers put together
 
*[[Special purpose acquisition companies]].
So, to keep me company while I load up the van with shotgun cartridges and tins of spam, and with feeling, but in no particular order:
 
*'''[[Bitcoin]]''' (1) existing; (2) having a value greater than nil; (3) staying in existence for even after one obviously speculative bubble in 2018 (4) continuing to stay in existence for three years; and (5) having ''another'' blatantly obvious speculative bubble, three times bigger than the first one; (6) Tesla blowing a billion and a half on bitcoin at the top of the speculative bubble.
*[[Tesla]] having a bigger market cap of $800bn than the next NINE biggest auto manufacturers put together.
*[[Special purpose acquisition companies]]. Just generally.
*Talk of “liberalising” London’s listing rules to allow for [[SPAC]]s
*Talk of “liberalising” London’s listing rules to allow for [[SPAC]]s
*[[Non-fungible token]]s are selling. Even ones of an artwork ''actually called “[[Morons]]”''.
*[[Non-fungible token]]s are selling. Even ones of an artwork ''actually called “[[Morons]]”''.
*[[GameStop]].
*The return from the dead of MoviePass.

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I am no financial wizard, readers, but I’m getting the sense the market just feels a bit toppy. This I detect not by reference to an unusual contango in the front-month Brent Crude contract — any experts reading will know at once I am not even sure what that is — nor because of suspicious softness non-farm payroll data, nor mean-reversion in the residential real estate default rates (ditto, ditto), but because folks just seem to be doing plainly bonkers things.

There is no time like the present, and here, in early March 2021 I thought I would start compiling signs of the forthcoming apocalypse.

Now as we all know, apocalypses can stay irrational a lot longer than I can stay sober, so I can’t make any definitive call as to when we are going into the abyss, but, as sure as death, taxes and rice-pudding we are, and there signs it might be soon.

So, to keep me company while I load up the van with shotgun cartridges and tins of spam, and with feeling, but in no particular order:

  • Bitcoin (1) existing; (2) having a value greater than nil; (3) staying in existence for even after one obviously speculative bubble in 2018 (4) continuing to stay in existence for three years; and (5) having another blatantly obvious speculative bubble, three times bigger than the first one; (6) Tesla blowing a billion and a half on bitcoin at the top of the speculative bubble.
  • Tesla having a bigger market cap of $800bn than the next NINE biggest auto manufacturers put together.
  • Special purpose acquisition companies. Just generally.
  • Talk of “liberalising” London’s listing rules to allow for SPACs
  • Non-fungible tokens are selling. Even ones of an artwork actually called “Morons”.
  • GameStop.
  • The return from the dead of MoviePass.
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