[hawk59]

I also think the term bubble is thrown around too much, if you look at real bubbles(the .com boom being the latest one) people lose almost all their money and have no prospect of gaining it back. That was true with .com stocks, tulips, south sea shares, etc...There's nothing going on today that can be compared with real bubbles. There's always going to be excess somewhere but bubbles don't come around too often.