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I guess the 1987 stock market is a prime recent example of the "this time is going to be different"
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I guess the 1987 stock market is a prime recent example of the "this time is going to be different"
complacency. Right. There was going to be a shortage of stocks again. In 1968, one of the major Wall Street houses published a great learned thesis on why there was a shortage of stocks developing, and why the bull market had to keep going up for years—right at the top. In 1987, you started hearing it all over again: "There is a shortage of stocks, because everybody is buying in all this stock." At the bottom of the bear market [he begins a laugh that builds steadily] there is going to be a shortage of money— I assure you—with a gigantic surplus of stocks. While editing this chapter, I came across the following item in a Time magazine story about the incredible bull market on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (August 8, 1988, p. 29). One could hardly ask for a better current example of "this time is going to be different." The subject of the Japanese stock market actually comes up slightly later in this interview. The explosive growth worries some Western financial experts, who fear that the boom could go bust. If that happened, investors with heavy losses in Tokyo could be forced to pull money out of other markets, triggering another crash. Japanese stocks are already trading at astronomical prices in comparison with the profits of the 116 companies that issued the shares, at least by American standards. On the New York Stock Exchange, such price- earnings ratios run about 15 to 1, while in Tokyo the multiples are often four times as high. Nippon Telegraph & Telephone trades at 158 times its earnings. "Japanese authorities have allowed a speculative bubble to grow," warns George Soros, manager of the New York City-based Quantum Fund, "At no time in the past has a bubble of this magnitude been deflated in an orderly manner." Such worries are groundless, argue analysts in Tokyo. The Japanese attribute the high price-earnings ratios in part to accounting rules that allow companies to understate earnings to keep their taxes lower. Another factor propping up prices is so-called cross-holding of stock. Because many Japanese companies hold large blocks of other companies' stock, which out of tradition are seldom traded, fewer shares are available for purchase so their prices rise. Download 5.03 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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