We have seen from the last three chapters how manic the stock markets of the world can be and that the Malaysia/Singapore market is particularly so.’ Worse than being merely manic, the Malaysia/ Singapore market is very unpredictable—it can collapse in the midst of prosperity...
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Cause,Pre-Conditions,Some Reasons for Speculative Manias & Their Aftermaths-Part.3
THE AFTERMATH Once the crash has begun, the stampede in the opposite direction occurs and the mad rush to sell is as fierce as the original eagerness to buy. Most speculative manias end in roughly the same way. It is interesting to note how they...
Cause,Pre-Conditions,Some Reasons for Speculative Manias & Their Aftermaths-Part.2
FORMATION OF A SPECULATIVE CROWD The existence of certain pre-conditions is necessary for a speculative mania to take place but they still do not explain why it should take place in a particular place and time. After all, such conditions do exist in many countries...
Cause,Pre-Conditions,Some Reasons for Speculative Manias & Their Aftermaths-Part.1
A crowd think: in image: and each image itself call: up a fantasy’ of other image: though the} may have very distant relation with the observed fact: . (Le Bon) After going through the history of the six episodes of speculative mania as detailed in...
The History: 3 Local Stock Market Crashes-Part 4
THE CRASH OF 1987 At the time of writing (June 1988), it may be premature to write the history of the 1987 Crash as the full story of this crash has not yet...
The History: 3 Local Stock Market Crashes-Part 3
THE CRASH OF 1981 Whom the God: wish to destroy, they first praise highly ~Ancient Greek saying The Crash of 1981 occurred eight years after the Crash of 1973. in magnitude, it is almost as severe as the first Crash. It would seem at first...
The History: 3 Local Stock Market Crashes-Part 2
A SHORT DIGRESSION ON WHEN A STOCK IS EXPENSIVE When investors speak of a share as either cheap or expensive what is actually meant is the price relative to some standard measure of share value because shares are sold at widely different prices. Thus,...
The History: 3 Local Stock Market Crashes-Part 1
In this chapter, our excursion to Manialand returns home. I shall attempt to describe and analyse the three stock market boom‘and-bust cycles that had taken place in Malaysia/Singapore in the last fifteen years. That there should be three severe crashes (and a less severe one)...
The History : Famous Crashes of the West-The Great Crash of 1929
THE GREAT CRASH OF 1929 Our final excursion to Manialand takes us much nearer ‘home’ in terms of time and subject matter. Even after nearly sixty years, it is difficult to put the Great Crash into perspective. The Crash probably contributed to the Great Depression which...
The History : Famous Crashes of the West,The South Sea Bubble,Part-2
THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE Our second adventure to Manialand takes us to early 18th century England when thousands of Englishmen ‘lost their cool’ and engaged in a most extraordinary national passion. At that time, England was just about to launch its industrial revolution which was...