In this edition of The Motley Fool's "Ask a Fool" series, Motley Fool One analyst Jason Moser takes a question from a Fool reader who asks: "How can an investor see when we're in a bubble?" Jason talks about the dot-com boom and the recent housing crisis as examples of the market behaving irrationally and whether bitcoin may be another present-day example of "bubble-like" behavior and what investors can do.
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Ask a Fool: How to Recognize a Bubble
How can investors tell when we're in the middle of a bubble?
Jason Moser owns shares of Amazon.com. The Motley Fool recommends and owns shares of Amazon.com. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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