Geopolitical Economy Report
Geopolitical Economy Report
Ben Norton
The US stock market is in the biggest bubble in history. The entire economy is at risk.
49 minutes Posted Jan 4, 2025 at 12:00 am.
American exceptionalism
US stock market is over 60% of world
USA is 74% of MSCI World Index
Top 25 companies in world
Exorbitant privilege of US dollar
S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices
Magnificent 7
Just 25 companies make up 50.3% of S&P 500
Tesla is insanely overvalued
Big US companies are really financial firms
How to measure a bubble
Buffett Indicator (market cap to GDP)
Public & private equities to GDP
How the US government inflated the bubble
Richest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks
Warren Buffett's warnings
Berkshire Hathaway dumps stocks
Jeff Bezos sells Amazon shares
Mark Zuckerberg sells Meta stocks
Elon Musk sold Tesla shares
The "greatest bubble in human history"
Alan Greenspan and "irrational exuberance"
Fears of "pent-up exuberance"
P/E ratios
Irrational investing
Donald Trump's tax cuts help the rich
Trump and Ronald Reagan
Trickle-down economics
Wall Street fills Trump's cabinet
Financialization of US economy
Will Trump reverse de-industrialization?
Real estate & homelessness
US dollar
Wall Street vs Main Street
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The US stock market is in "the mother of all bubbles", with the market capitalization of publicly traded companies at 206% of GDP. This is higher than the dot-com bubble of 2000, and even the peak of the crash of 1929. Meanwhile, just 25 companies make up over half of the weight of the S&P 500, and the Magnificent 7 Big Tech monopolies are 35% of the market cap of the index. However, the US economy was built upon this financial house of cards, and politicians are profiting from it. Ben Norton explains the dangers.
VIDEO with charts here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rguHublkxCQ
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