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The Passive Aggressive Market: Bogle's Warning Came True
The Passive Aggressive Market: Bogle's Warning Came True
Authored by Michael Lebowitz via realinvestmentadvice.com,
Since the pandemic, the line between passive investing and aggressive speculation has blurred. The current bout of speculative fervor extends beyond financial markets. For instance, we see the same impulse in the explosion of sports betting and the surge in event-betting sites like Kalshi and Polymarket.
In the investment arena, margin debt is at record highs (as shown below), and zero-day-to-expiry (0DTE) stock options now account for approximately 50 percent of all options volume. Furthermore, the number of...
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