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How ‘the mother of all bubbles’ will pop

All the classic signs of extreme prices, valuations and sentiment suggest the end is near. It is time to bet against “American exceptionalism”.

Having tagged America’s inordinately large share of global financial markets as “the mother of all bubbles” in my last column, the main pushback I got, even from the few people who share my view, was that there is no sign this will deflate any time soon.

Almost no one foresees an imminent pop. Virtually every Wall Street analyst predicts US stocks will continue outperforming the rest of the world in 2025.

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Ruchir Sharma is a writer and investor, and the author of four books, including most recently "The 10 Rules of Successful Nations". He is chairman of Rockefeller International.

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