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Howard Marks On Speculative Manias One of my favorite investing legends is Oaktree Management’s Howard Marks. His investing wisdom and in-depth knowledge of investor psychology and market dynamics are unparalleled. Given the “speculative mania" we continue to watch in the market, I thought a review of some of his previous thoughts is appropriate. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Over the weekend, I re-read some previous research and ran across an interview between Goldman Sach’s Hugo-Scott Gall and Howard Marks. The talk ran...

Recently, I discussed the  “Two Pins That Pop The Bubble,” specifically noting the risk of rising interest rates and inflation. However, the real threat is not just the stock market bubble’s deflation but rather blowing up the  “everything bubble.” During previous periods in financial history, the focus was primarily on the deflation of a singular market bubble. Such was a point we touched on in  “Extraordinary Popular Delusions:” The two tables below show the history of bubbles and what they all had in common. The flood of liquidity and ultra-accommodative monetary policie...

Tether settles with the NYAG and Square buys the dip, sparking rapid recovery for crypto markets Crypto at a glance Was that the dip? Just when it looks like you’re going to be able to buy crypto at a huge discount, bam! Yet another corporate giant starts buying and it’s back up we go. Can the recovery now be sustained? Is $50,000 the new bottom for BTC? After Monday’s drama saw Bitcoin plunge to as low as $45,000, a stream of good news yesterday has since seen the leading cryptocurrency bounce back almost immediately and it’s now stabilised above $50,000 again.

A round-up of today's crypto world as Ether breaks $2,000, Bitcoin breaks a trillion market cap, and Elon Musk is still loving crypto.

Crypto at a glance Never settle. Bitcoin certainly doesn’t. Not content with bashing through $50,000 like a gorilla through a birthday cake, it continues to surge and has just set a new all-time high over $52,000. It’s now closing in on another huge psychological landmark – $1 trillion market cap. Will it hit this week? Bitcoin’s surge comes as influential financial players continue to flood into the space. Yesterday, BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income, Rick Rieder, hinted to CNBC that the world’s largest asset manager has diversified into crypto, while pr...