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Is The Economy Recovering, Or Is Bernanke Blowing The Mother Of All Global Bubbles?

Oct 19, 2010, 12:49 AM If you haven’t been paying attention, or are only paying attention to the US market you may have missed something: markets are screaming higher all over the world, with many risk assets hitting all-time historical highs.

And so the question is: Is the economy really recovering all over the world, or is it merely cheap money from the Fed that’s rushing headlong into commodities and stocks, particularly of the emerging market variety. After all, in places like Turkey, Thailand, India, and Indonesia, markets are going berserk.

So just to give you a quick snapshot of what’s going on, we’ve assembled some wildly bubbly-looking charts.

Cotton prices are at all-time highs Bombay Stock Exchange going nuts Gold (no comment needed) Silver (no comment needed) Thailand... what strife? Shanghai Composite going parabolic lately Turkey is incredibly strong Indonesia, same story Brazil breaking out to new highs Russia, again, same story Soybean prices are surging Copper near all-time highs again South Korea has totally put the recession behind it Palladium, all time highs Hong Kong is nearly back to old highs And in the US the NASDAQ is surging Now for some historical perspective... Check out the most amazing bubbles in history >





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