China Stocks, Circling the Earth, etc.
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The financial media is inventing new and interesting ways to talk about
the China stock bubble that, almost unanimously, they think is going to get
even bigger (perhaps much bigger) before it meets its pin. In this Bloomberg report,
they equate the one-year rise in stock market “value” – $6.5 trillion dollars
– to circling the earth 250 times with $100 bills.
It is clearly the newbie investors in China that are driving share prices
higher (see this illuminating AP story
for more evidence of that), but the financial media isn’t helping either. To
wit, the Bloomberg story casually refers to the $6.5 trillion change as
“value creation” (i.e., “The figure, $6.5 trillion, sums up the value created
in just 12 months of trading on Chinese stock exchanges…”) and this serves to
legitimize the gains.
Isn’t there a better phrase than “value creation” when referring to mature
asset bubbles?
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Tim Iacono is the founder of Iacono Research, a subscription service providing market commentary and investment advisory services specializing in commodity based investing.
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