Originally Posted by
mikeorloff
Now that metals seem to be slipping, I've wondered what the next bubble will be. There was a technology stock bubble in the 1990's; I thought about investing in steel companies at that time, but they were going bankrupt. When the technology bubble burst, I remember money started flowing into real estate investment trusts, and in the 2000s, there was a real estate bubble. When that bubble burst, money started flowing into precious metals. If the precious metal bubble bursts, and anyone on the forum has some thoughts on what the next bubble will be, I'd be interested in hearing them.
You left off the student loan bubble which is bursting at the moment and is HUGE. I expect the medical field to collapse in the next decade taking with it many leveraged hospitals (taking loans out to buy smaller ones) which will in turn kill off drug makers and drug sellers plus many doctors and nurses. Too many people making a decent living on healthcare and when it implodes it will be ugly. The SS disability fund will run out of money soon, Medicare is going to run out of money in a decade, and SS will be using more money then they receive from working people (and we know the SS fund is just an IOU). So when the old white voters start *****ing about their healthcare problems the US GOV will have to start cutting defense spending to shore it up (mostly by firing military personnel and contractors first).
I don't see a good spot to park money as an investment unless you have a few hundred billion to buy a FED bank and loan imaginary money to the GOV and collect interest on it. I do see food prices going up especially with long term water issues in the US followed by diseases at the major chicken, pork, and probably cow producers . I just can't see non rich people profiting from it because of capital needed.
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