Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

The Bubble in Bubbles

If you have been paying any kind of attention to the mainstream media the past few years, you may have noticed quite a bit of bubble chatter.

November 19, 2013 at 12:48 PM UTC

By Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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If you have been paying any kind of attention to the mainstream media the past few years, you may have noticed quite a bit of bubble chatter. We have a tech IPO bubble and a stock bubble and of course a bond bubble. This is caused by a global central bank QE bubble. We had an Apple bubble, we had a fraud bubble, we had a derivatives bubble and a subprime bubble. Silicon Valley is having a startup bubble, and parts of south Florida and Manhattan are having mini-real-estate bubbles. The gold and oil bubbles came and went. The cover of Barron's this weekend was literally a bubble -- the second such bubble cover in two years.

We have had so many bubbles that, as I first addressed in 2011, we are having a "bubble in bubbles."