- In the early 1720s, exactly 300 years ago, all of England was overtaken by a surge of stock market speculation which we now know as the “South Sea Bubble”.
- Our belief is that all this speculation will end badly, as has been the case with all speculative bubbles, most recently in 1999-2001, when the NASDAQ index fell by more than 80%.
- One of the most famous and widely quoted aphorisms about the stock market, attributed to John Maynard Lord Keynes, is that “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”.
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Does Value Still Matter?