What is going to break the current tech/growth bubble? Demand and supply:
*The Fed is on track to stop printing by mid 2022.
*The supply of stock keeps rising; prices are rising; stock based comp is large; the IPO market is frenetic; and secondary offerings increasing. (1/n).
Prices keep rising because the Fed is manufacturing new liquidity faster than it can be absorbed by financial markets. US$130bn of IPO & secondary issuance is needed every month to absorb it. That's very difficult.
Prices is financial markets are ultimately set by the interaction of demand and supply. The money supply determines the aggregate demand for financial assets; and the supply of listed product the supply. If demand > supply prices will rise, and vice versa.
The supply of investable product is relatively fixed in the short term. However, just like in the late 1990s and other cycles past, in a period of excess liquidity, the financial industry will work night and day to manufacture more investable product to try to sate the demand.
On current trends - rampant cap raisings and reduced Fed printing, it is only a matter of time before the demand/supply balance changes and tips in favour of excess supply. When this happens the bottom will fall out of the spec ends of markets. It ain't gonna be pretty.
Incidentally, it is tiresome to keep reading arguments such stocks are sensitive to inflation/rates because "higher discount rates impact long duration cash flows". Yes, but that's not why they are behaving that way. It's because they will drop 90% if the liquidity rug is pulled.
Even theoretically, the argument is wrong, because it only applies to higher *real* rates, not nominal ones. Real rates have actually become a lot more negative as inflation is rising much faster than rates.

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