{"id":84351,"date":"2025-07-25T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84351"},"modified":"2025-07-25T17:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:26:55","slug":"bursting-bubble-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/25\/bursting-bubble-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Bursting bubble time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FT published this headline this afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-84352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-at-15.37.20-550x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-at-15.37.20-550x198.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-at-15.37.20-768x277.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-at-15.37.20-600x216.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-25-at-15.37.20.png 1436w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2450c892-3b9e-431e-a352-1d01df269617?emailId=760d16ee-b3d7-4404-b2ea-1e95eab5e987&amp;segmentId=3d08be62-315f-7330-5bbd-af33dc531acb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They added:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wall Street\u2019s relentless rally this summer has driven stock valuations close to record levels, prompting warnings that \u201ceuphoric\u201d markets are entering bubble territory.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 index has hit a string of all-time peaks this month, while US corporate borrowing costs are nearing their lowest level in decades, in a dramatic turnaround from the April slump sparked by Donald Trump\u2019s trade war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have, of course, been saying this for months.<\/p>\n<p>I am also very confident that I have been right to do so.<\/p>\n<p>As my mother was wont to say, this will end in tears. There is no other possible outcome now.<\/p>\n<p>And don't doubt, where the US goes, we follow soon after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FT published this headline this afternoon: They added: Wall Street\u2019s relentless rally this summer has driven stock valuations close to record levels, prompting warnings<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/25\/bursting-bubble-time\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,212,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-london","category-economic-truths","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84358,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84351\/revisions\/84358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}