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If the bubble pops, the blast radius seems extremely small. Most of the money is coming from companys' excess cash. Even the loans that default will be backed some amount of useful capital. It just doesn't seem likely at all to cause the same pain as the dot-com bubble.


"blast radius seems extremely small" - I agree, couple days ago there was an article that such occurence may cause full blown recession in USA


It will but not because of companies going down but because the bubble is casting a giant shadow over the real economical deficits we have atm.


The S&P500 is largely held up by a small number of tech companies. If they go down, there is no hiding what's really going on in Trumps economy.

E: getting some downvotes, feel free to elaborate where you disagree.


Not the one downvoting but I'd guess they have a bag full of these stocks


It would likely cause a technical recession at the very least, but would probably not result in the sort of contagion that some market crashes do.


The public markets are hitting all time highs every week. It’s going to be painful if that pops.




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