← One-page dashboard

Evidence & appendix

Research release: 2026-09-06. Historical charts are reconstructions from revised data. Financial feeds and the frozen Nasdaq inference refresh separately; historical model fitting is not an automatic feed.

Can we judge predictions made before the outcome?

No prospective forecasts recorded yet. This record starts with newly verified data. Historical reconstructions are excluded.

Each saved Nasdaq estimate keeps its original issuance time, 13 monthly closes and frozen model. A changed input creates a separate revision. Repeated checks preserve the first record. This is an application record, not an independently timestamped registry.

These estimates are issued during their target month, before its closing outcome—not before the month starts. Collection closes before the final seven calendar days of each target month, avoiding issuance after a month-end trading close. Future evaluation must use the first issuance for each month and model; revisions are not extra trials. No prospective accuracy result is available yet, and these are not AI crash odds.

Collection paused by source failure. The latest market refresh did not succeed; retained historical inputs cannot create a new forecast.

Last successful market check: 2026-09-06 00:00:00Z. Collection runs after successful, eligible market refreshes on visits; it is not guaranteed by the hourly research schedule.

Download dated records and exact inputs ↗ · Return to dashboard →

Financial losses and productive value

Boom argues that concentrated ambition and funding can accelerate innovation. Track two outcomes separately: financial losses and capabilities that remain useful. For AI, compare financial exposure with useful output, sustained usage and infrastructure utilization. Lower prices can help customers while squeezing suppliers. Productive progress alone does not justify a valuation.

Inspired by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber’s Boom. The two-outcome lens is our application of the argument; no productive-value bonus is added to the risk score.

The supplied Boom excerpt examines Apollo as a publicly financed social bubble: political enthusiasm enabled costly overinvestment, while support later faded (zine pp. 19–21). The authors argue NASA procurement accelerated semiconductor affordability and diffusion, while acknowledging those technologies might otherwise have emerged later (pp. 30–31). They also discuss cultural legacy beyond measurable returns (pp. 32–33). These are the authors’ interpretations, not proof that every bubble produces net benefits. Boom excerpt: The Apollo Program ↗

Use dated observations with their original units. Capacity, adoption and falling unit cost are different indicators, so do not combine them into a social-value score. None identifies the counterfactual: what would have happened without excessive investment.

EpisodeFinancial exposureObserved productive evidenceWhat it does not establish
AIProspective exposure: equity investors, creditors and compute counterparties may bear losses if revenue disappoints. Company financing and compute commitments establish exposure, not realized losses. Source ↗ Source ↗ Source ↗ Source ↗ GPT-3.5-level inference cost fell more than 280-fold, November 2022–October 2024. Source ↗ Benchmark-matched inference cost is not full task cost, profitability or current infrastructure utilization.
British railways, including IrelandThe promotion boom’s expansion was associated with deteriorating shareholder value. Source ↗ Open railway mileage rose from 2,343 in 1845 to 6,308 in 1850. Source ↗ Physical capacity does not establish utilization or net welfare. This is Britain and Ireland, not the U.S. 1873 railway case.
DotcomShareholders bore falling equity values; Mishkin distinguishes this episode from bubbles accompanied by marked bank deterioration. Source ↗ U.S. high-speed internet lines grew from about 7.1 million in December 2000 to 9.6 million in June 2001. Source ↗ An adoption count during the bust does not measure telecom asset utilization, survivor profits or economy-wide net benefit.

The FCC counts lines or wireless channels above 200 Kbps in at least one direction, not unique people. Its rounded endpoints should not be used to override the source’s reported growth rate. The railway figures include Ireland and do not describe the US 1873 episode. No monthly series is interpolated from these observations.

Still needed for AI: paid usage and retention, cost per successful task, energized versus idle capacity, equipment resale value and economic useful life. These would help test the productive-boom hypothesis; capex announcements alone do not.

Book scope and exact source locators

We reviewed the official synopsis and Apollo excerpt, not the full book. Public funding and overinvestment: zine pp. 19–21; semiconductor spillovers and counterfactual qualification: pp. 30–31; nonfinancial legacy: pp. 32–33. These are author interpretations, not causal estimates of the net benefit of bubbles.

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation — Stripe Press — Publisher synopsis; authors Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber

Boom excerpt: The Apollo Program — Printed zine pp. 19–21, 30–33; PDF pages 10–11, 16–17 (one-based)

Stanford HAI — 2025 AI Index, takeaway 7 — Takeaway 7: AI becomes more efficient, affordable and accessible

Campbell and Turner (2015), Managerial failure in mid-Victorian Britain? — Table 5, printed p. 44 / PDF page 45; table draws on Parliamentary Papers; includes Ireland

FCC Releases Study on Telephone Trends, May 22, 2002 — PDF page 1, Advanced Telecommunications Services, first bullet

Mishkin (2008), How Should We Respond to Asset Price Bubbles? — Distinction between credit-driven and other bubbles; technology-stock episode

A longer-horizon test: no convincing improvement

New research asks a different question: will any of the next 12 monthly observations be at least 20% below today’s price? A new price threshold is set at each forecast origin. Already-declining markets remain in the sample. This is neither a monthly crash-entry probability nor the chance a fundamental bubble exists.

Yₜ = 1 if min(Pₜ₊₁,…,Pₜ₊₁₂) ≤ 0.8 Pₜ
All 12 consecutive future observations must exist before scoring.
Selected p = logistic(−1.420492589 − 0.348248061 z_drawdown + 0.303113978 z_vol12)
z_drawdown = (drawdown + 0.099607477) / 0.135085233
z_vol12 = (vol12 − 0.067705374) / 0.044804680

Training, development and retrospective test periods retain the original chronology. Each complete future outcome window must fit wholly inside its assigned period. Training outcomes end by 1984; development outcomes are within 1987–1997; test outcomes are within 2000–2024. Standardization and coefficients use training only; development selects the ridge penalty and candidate. The simpler two-feature model wins development Brier error. We had already examined the later period in previous research: this is explicitly a retrospective comparison, not a fresh untouched holdout.

ModelIndustry BrierNasdaq BrierCurrent Nasdaq estimate
Constant training rate0.149450.1482920.7%
Drawdown + volatility (development-selected)0.145980.1234615.5%
Full four-feature model0.146180.1240515.2%

Industry Brier improvement for the selected model: 0.00347, with a 95% interval of -0.00571 to 0.01193. The Nasdaq interval also spans zero. Both use 2,000 resamples of circular 24-month calendar blocks, preserving all industries together. The model’s apparent advantage is not established with confidence.

At a 10% cutoff the selected model flags every test month—an unusable alarm rule here. The predeclared 20% cutoff gives the counts below. Positive rows are overlapping forecast windows, not distinct crashes; adjacent forecasts can refer to the same decline.

SampleForecast windowsPositive windowsCaughtFalse alarmsMissedTrue negatives
US industries1416125761092303914848546
Nasdaq transfer28952313821199

Current research snapshot: 15.5% for September 2026–August 2027, using the August 2026 Nasdaq close. The loss threshold is 21,096.712. The constant comparator is 20.7%. These are uncalibrated transfers from US industry total returns to a broad technology price index, not AI-specific odds. This research snapshot does not update with the separate monthly live feed.

Literature motivates specifying both horizon and loss size. Martin (2017) studies market crash probabilities, but this next-12-month minimum-price target is an original adaptation, not a replication or a literature-standard bubble score.

Calibration and monthly forecast/outcome tables

Constant training rate · industry calibration

Forecast binWindowsMean estimateObserved frequency
20.0%–30.0%1416120.7%18.2%

Drawdown + volatility (development-selected) · industry calibration

Forecast binWindowsMean estimateObserved frequency
10.0%–20.0%1003015.2%14.8%
20.0%–30.0%282223.8%24.5%
30.0%–40.0%76434.2%28.7%
40.0%–60.0%43947.1%33.0%
60.0%–80.0%10167.2%36.6%
80.0%–100.0%581.3%0.0%

Full four-feature model · industry calibration

Forecast binWindowsMean estimateObserved frequency
10.0%–20.0%998215.2%15.0%
20.0%–30.0%280523.8%23.4%
30.0%–40.0%78834.1%28.2%
40.0%–60.0%46847.2%33.8%
60.0%–80.0%10967.6%38.5%
80.0%–100.0%982.0%11.1%

US railroads / Panic of1873

Published monthly chain price index; within-month observation convention unspecified, target-frequency mismatch. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Future-trained illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
1870-041870-05–1871-0413.74%20.70%13.95%0.30%
1870-051870-06–1871-0512.59%20.70%12.77%4.08%
1870-061870-07–1871-0612.44%20.70%12.86%4.81%
1870-071870-08–1871-0713.45%20.70%14.12%1.81%
1870-081870-09–1871-0813.98%20.70%14.58%0.00%
1870-091870-10–1871-0913.10%20.70%13.32%0.70%
1870-101870-11–1871-1012.96%20.70%13.20%1.12%
1870-111870-12–1871-1112.94%20.70%13.19%1.12%
1870-121871-01–1871-1213.22%20.70%13.50%0.00%
1871-011871-02–1872-0113.14%20.70%13.36%0.00%
1871-021871-03–1872-0212.71%20.70%12.94%0.00%
1871-031871-04–1872-0312.17%20.70%12.35%1.76%
1871-041871-05–1872-0411.86%20.70%12.03%4.28%
1871-051871-06–1872-0511.71%20.70%11.93%6.40%
1871-061871-07–1872-0611.92%20.70%12.34%5.72%
1871-071871-08–1872-0712.27%20.70%12.69%3.96%
1871-081871-09–1872-0811.98%20.70%12.19%4.58%
1871-091871-10–1872-0911.86%20.70%12.10%5.03%
1871-101871-11–1872-1013.87%20.70%14.51%0.00%
1871-111871-12–1872-1113.64%20.70%13.84%0.00%
1871-121872-01–1872-1213.10%20.70%13.22%0.00%
1872-011872-02–1873-0112.54%20.70%12.68%0.00%
1872-021872-03–1873-0212.36%20.70%12.64%0.00%
1872-031872-04–1873-0312.13%20.70%12.26%2.71%
1872-041872-05–1873-0412.16%20.70%12.28%5.58%
1872-051872-06–1873-0512.23%20.70%12.62%5.22%
1872-061872-07–1873-0612.53%20.70%12.95%4.22%
1872-071872-08–1873-0712.71%20.70%13.06%3.42%
1872-081872-09–1873-0813.15%20.70%13.55%2.04%
1872-091872-10–1873-0913.54%20.70%13.93%7.65%
1872-101872-11–1873-1013.06%20.70%13.23%15.20%
1872-111872-12–1873-1113.26%20.70%13.47%17.74%
1872-121873-01–1873-1212.58%20.70%12.64%19.88%
1873-011873-02–1874-0112.26%20.70%12.49%20.66%
1873-021873-03–1874-0211.94%20.70%12.19%21.61%
1873-031873-04–1874-0312.03%20.70%12.46%20.96%
1873-041873-05–1874-0412.23%20.70%12.78%19.58%
1873-051873-06–1874-0512.05%20.70%12.48%19.71%
1873-061873-07–1874-0612.27%20.70%12.74%19.03%
1873-071873-08–1874-0712.36%20.70%12.76%18.75%
1873-081873-09–1874-0812.46%20.70%12.84%18.31%
1873-091873-10–1874-0915.80%20.70%16.76%11.65%
1873-101873-11–1874-1019.44%20.70%20.54%3.60%
1873-111873-12–1874-1120.71%20.70%21.26%0.00%
1873-121874-01–1874-1218.85%20.70%18.41%0.13%
1874-011874-02–1875-0117.42%20.70%17.42%5.28%
1874-021874-03–1875-0216.32%20.70%16.65%7.81%
1874-031874-04–1875-0316.41%20.70%17.15%6.14%
1874-041874-05–1875-0417.35%20.70%18.12%3.51%

US stocks, 1929

Monthly mean/published index, not verified month-end closes; target-frequency mismatch. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Future-trained illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
1927-091927-10–1928-0912.04%20.70%11.65%1.53%
1927-101927-11–1928-1012.37%20.70%12.37%0.00%
1927-111927-12–1928-1111.94%20.70%11.72%0.00%
1927-121928-01–1928-1211.94%20.70%11.72%0.80%
1928-011928-02–1929-0111.86%20.70%11.74%1.20%
1928-021928-03–1929-0212.36%20.70%12.37%0.00%
1928-031928-04–1929-0312.16%20.70%11.73%0.00%
1928-041928-05–1929-0412.34%20.70%11.77%1.96%
1928-051928-06–1929-0512.34%20.70%11.97%4.90%
1928-061928-07–1929-0614.43%20.70%14.59%0.00%
1928-071928-08–1929-0714.22%20.70%14.01%0.00%
1928-081928-09–1929-0813.18%20.70%12.97%0.00%
1928-091928-10–1929-0912.97%20.70%12.53%0.00%
1928-101928-11–1929-1012.84%20.70%12.65%0.00%
1928-111928-12–1929-1113.02%20.70%12.43%10.75%
1928-121929-01–1929-1213.06%20.70%12.94%11.10%
1929-011929-02–1930-0113.21%20.70%12.48%17.22%
1929-021929-03–1930-0213.10%20.70%12.78%17.65%
1929-031929-04–1930-0313.06%20.70%12.73%19.07%
1929-041929-05–1930-0413.20%20.70%13.15%18.59%
1929-051929-06–1930-0513.02%20.70%12.89%19.80%
1929-061929-07–1930-0612.42%20.70%12.11%21.30%
1929-071929-08–1930-0712.72%20.70%11.81%27.74%
1929-081929-09–1930-0812.77%20.70%12.00%31.63%
1929-091929-10–1930-0912.64%20.70%12.05%34.25%
1929-101929-11–1930-1018.02%20.70%18.49%35.98%
1929-111929-12–1930-1136.95%20.70%40.59%19.24%
1929-121930-01–1930-1235.53%20.70%34.19%27.52%
1930-011930-02–1931-0134.56%20.70%33.89%28.56%
1930-021930-03–1931-0232.37%20.70%31.20%32.77%
1930-031930-04–1931-0330.90%20.70%30.19%35.21%
1930-041930-05–1931-0428.52%20.70%27.62%39.08%
1930-051930-06–1931-0531.34%20.70%31.99%40.14%
1930-061930-07–1931-0636.30%20.70%37.61%35.55%
1930-071930-08–1931-0736.45%20.70%36.89%34.14%
1930-081930-09–1931-0836.52%20.70%37.07%33.29%
1930-091930-10–1931-0931.73%20.70%32.82%43.07%
1930-101930-11–1931-1034.37%20.70%37.49%42.80%
1930-111930-12–1931-1131.36%20.70%31.81%38.33%
1930-121931-01–1931-1233.67%20.70%34.18%45.58%
1931-011931-02–1932-0132.76%20.70%32.00%48.06%
1931-021931-03–1932-0230.33%20.70%29.33%52.15%
1931-031931-04–1932-0329.44%20.70%29.32%53.05%
1931-041931-05–1932-0430.43%20.70%32.37%60.40%
1931-051931-06–1932-0530.56%20.70%32.73%61.55%
1931-061931-07–1932-0630.52%20.70%31.38%65.61%
1931-071931-08–1932-0729.29%20.70%29.29%66.71%
1931-081931-09–1932-0830.35%20.70%31.11%65.68%
1931-091931-10–1932-0932.05%20.70%35.32%59.68%

Gold, 1980

Monthly mean/published index, not verified month-end closes; target-frequency mismatch. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Future-trained illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
1978-011978-02–1979-0113.21%20.70%12.62%0.00%
1978-021978-03–1979-0213.21%20.70%12.95%1.61%
1978-031978-04–1979-0312.81%20.70%12.65%4.54%
1978-041978-05–1979-0414.59%20.70%14.94%0.00%
1978-051978-06–1979-0514.31%20.70%14.23%0.00%
1978-061978-07–1979-0612.79%20.70%12.44%0.00%
1978-071978-08–1979-0712.79%20.70%12.52%0.00%
1978-081978-09–1979-0813.17%20.70%12.31%0.05%
1978-091978-10–1979-0913.17%20.70%12.73%2.77%
1978-101978-11–1979-1013.23%20.70%12.48%9.34%
1978-111978-12–1979-1117.69%20.70%18.14%0.00%
1978-121979-01–1979-1217.35%20.70%16.84%0.00%
1979-011979-02–1980-0114.53%20.70%13.81%0.00%
1979-021979-03–1980-0214.70%20.70%13.95%2.67%
1979-031979-04–1980-0315.30%20.70%15.30%1.21%
1979-041979-05–1980-0415.43%20.70%15.27%0.00%
1979-051979-06–1980-0514.66%20.70%13.81%0.00%
1979-061979-07–1980-0614.81%20.70%13.82%0.00%
1979-071979-08–1980-0714.83%20.70%13.96%0.00%
1979-081979-09–1980-0814.64%20.70%14.18%0.00%
1979-091979-10–1980-0915.70%20.70%13.80%0.00%
1979-101979-11–1980-1015.83%20.70%14.36%0.00%
1979-111979-12–1980-1114.58%20.70%13.66%0.00%
1979-121980-01–1980-1214.96%20.70%12.64%0.00%
1980-011980-02–1981-0120.14%20.70%14.49%23.92%
1980-021980-03–1981-0221.22%20.70%19.12%24.88%
1980-031980-04–1981-0332.28%20.70%31.27%9.84%
1980-041980-05–1981-0435.96%20.70%33.13%4.18%
1980-051980-06–1981-0536.50%20.70%33.13%6.64%
1980-061980-07–1981-0629.59%20.70%25.23%23.24%
1980-071980-08–1981-0726.32%20.70%23.58%36.41%
1980-081980-09–1981-0827.78%20.70%26.07%34.77%
1980-091980-10–1981-0923.92%20.70%22.05%39.27%
1980-101980-11–1981-1024.88%20.70%24.27%38.13%
1980-111980-12–1981-1127.90%20.70%27.57%34.52%
1980-121981-01–1981-1235.74%20.70%37.03%24.00%
1981-011981-02–1982-0125.85%20.70%26.10%31.08%
1981-021981-03–1982-0230.84%20.70%32.83%25.14%
1981-031981-04–1982-0328.91%20.70%28.64%33.83%
1981-041981-05–1982-0428.88%20.70%28.40%33.39%
1981-051981-06–1982-0530.23%20.70%30.01%31.15%
1981-061981-07–1982-0629.25%20.70%29.65%31.69%
1981-071981-08–1982-0733.36%20.70%35.14%23.00%
1981-081981-09–1982-0833.42%20.70%33.38%23.21%
1981-091981-10–1982-0930.10%20.70%29.50%29.02%
1981-101981-11–1982-1028.54%20.70%29.32%28.05%
1981-111981-12–1982-1126.44%20.70%28.01%23.80%
1981-121982-01–1982-1225.36%20.70%25.69%23.19%
1982-011982-02–1983-0123.55%20.70%25.09%18.00%

Japan equities, 1989

Month-end daily close. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Development-era illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
1987-121988-01–1988-1221.69%20.70%21.64%0.00%
1988-011988-02–1989-0118.70%20.70%17.67%0.00%
1988-021988-03–1989-0216.55%20.70%15.99%0.00%
1988-031988-04–1989-0315.45%20.70%15.30%0.00%
1988-041988-05–1989-0415.26%20.70%15.16%0.25%
1988-051988-06–1989-0515.12%20.70%15.53%0.19%
1988-061988-07–1989-0615.03%20.70%15.23%1.45%
1988-071988-08–1989-0715.03%20.70%15.31%1.96%
1988-081988-09–1989-0815.54%20.70%16.15%0.00%
1988-091988-10–1989-0914.90%20.70%15.21%0.00%
1988-101988-11–1989-1013.29%20.70%13.35%0.00%
1988-111988-12–1989-1113.36%20.70%12.91%0.00%
1988-121989-01–1989-1212.80%20.70%12.45%0.00%
1989-011989-02–1990-0112.35%20.70%11.92%0.00%
1989-021989-03–1990-0212.09%20.70%11.99%0.00%
1989-031989-04–1990-0312.04%20.70%11.87%8.70%
1989-041989-05–1990-0411.95%20.70%11.82%12.25%
1989-051989-06–1990-0511.89%20.70%11.79%13.66%
1989-061989-07–1990-0613.45%20.70%13.72%10.21%
1989-071989-08–1990-0712.55%20.70%12.16%15.36%
1989-081989-09–1990-0812.93%20.70%12.98%24.55%
1989-091989-10–1990-0912.53%20.70%12.27%41.12%
1989-101989-11–1990-1012.62%20.70%12.61%40.97%
1989-111989-12–1990-1112.49%20.70%12.17%43.70%
1989-121990-01–1990-1212.55%20.70%12.21%46.08%
1990-011990-02–1991-0114.24%20.70%14.57%43.58%
1990-021990-03–1991-0217.25%20.70%17.81%39.34%
1990-031990-04–1991-0324.18%20.70%25.64%30.01%
1990-041990-05–1991-0424.54%20.70%24.58%29.07%
1990-051990-06–1991-0521.58%20.70%20.54%36.66%
1990-061990-07–1991-0622.93%20.70%23.27%34.30%
1990-071990-08–1991-0723.69%20.70%24.11%32.39%
1990-081990-09–1991-0832.60%20.70%34.96%19.23%
1990-091990-10–1991-0942.57%20.70%45.88%0.00%
1990-101990-11–1991-1039.12%20.70%36.61%11.34%
1990-111990-12–1991-1143.49%20.70%45.59%0.53%
1990-121991-01–1991-1239.67%20.70%39.56%6.34%
1991-011991-02–1992-0137.72%20.70%39.00%5.45%
1991-021991-03–1992-0231.80%20.70%31.09%19.20%
1991-031991-04–1992-0331.14%20.70%31.54%26.42%
1991-041991-05–1992-0431.45%20.70%31.81%33.40%
1991-051991-06–1992-0529.47%20.70%30.52%32.57%
1991-061991-07–1992-0632.96%20.70%35.19%31.51%
1991-071991-08–1992-0724.59%20.70%25.68%34.04%
1991-081991-09–1992-0826.74%20.70%28.40%28.77%
1991-091991-10–1992-0921.62%20.70%20.87%33.48%
1991-101991-11–1992-1017.85%20.70%17.92%36.92%
1991-111991-12–1992-1121.63%20.70%22.80%29.87%
1991-121992-01–1992-1220.88%20.70%21.00%30.78%

Dot-com, 2000

Month-end daily close. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Post-development asset-transfer illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
1998-031998-04–1999-0314.14%20.70%13.51%18.33%
1998-041998-05–1999-0414.16%20.70%13.69%19.76%
1998-051998-06–1999-0515.69%20.70%15.90%15.72%
1998-061998-07–1999-0614.25%20.70%13.73%20.87%
1998-071998-08–1999-0714.16%20.70%14.41%19.93%
1998-081998-09–1999-0826.02%20.70%28.63%0.00%
1998-091998-10–1999-0921.97%20.70%21.00%0.00%
1998-101998-11–1999-1020.09%20.70%19.84%0.00%
1998-111998-12–1999-1117.88%20.70%17.27%0.00%
1998-121999-01–1999-1218.25%20.70%17.06%0.00%
1999-011999-02–2000-0118.74%20.70%17.11%8.69%
1999-021999-03–2000-0222.96%20.70%23.58%0.00%
1999-031999-04–2000-0320.07%20.70%19.28%0.00%
1999-041999-05–2000-0419.35%20.70%19.00%2.84%
1999-051999-06–2000-0520.39%20.70%20.42%0.00%
1999-061999-07–2000-0619.31%20.70%18.37%1.77%
1999-071999-08–2000-0720.06%20.70%20.00%0.00%
1999-081999-09–2000-0815.82%20.70%14.67%0.00%
1999-091999-10–2000-0915.57%20.70%15.00%0.00%
1999-101999-11–2000-1015.65%20.70%14.41%0.00%
1999-111999-12–2000-1115.81%20.70%14.21%22.13%
1999-122000-01–2000-1216.83%20.70%14.33%39.29%
2000-012000-02–2001-0117.89%20.70%17.51%37.30%
2000-022000-03–2001-0216.53%20.70%14.00%54.18%
2000-032000-04–2001-0317.86%20.70%17.00%59.76%
2000-042000-05–2001-0427.23%20.70%27.62%52.33%
2000-052000-06–2001-0533.86%20.70%33.42%45.89%
2000-062000-07–2001-0627.96%20.70%24.77%53.60%
2000-072000-08–2001-0730.46%20.70%29.51%51.15%
2000-082000-09–2001-0825.90%20.70%23.54%57.08%
2000-092000-10–2001-0933.34%20.70%33.67%59.19%
2000-102000-11–2001-1037.53%20.70%37.39%55.52%
2000-112000-12–2001-1150.58%20.70%53.62%42.31%
2000-122001-01–2001-1249.45%20.70%50.17%39.33%
2001-012001-02–2002-0146.60%20.70%44.63%45.94%
2001-022001-03–2002-0253.92%20.70%58.62%30.35%
2001-032001-04–2002-0356.33%20.70%59.87%18.55%
2001-042001-05–2002-0453.72%20.70%51.87%29.18%
2001-052001-06–2002-0553.55%20.70%53.28%28.98%
2001-062001-07–2002-0650.89%20.70%50.91%32.28%
2001-072001-08–2002-0752.94%20.70%54.09%34.48%
2001-082001-09–2002-0850.78%20.70%53.88%27.17%
2001-092001-10–2002-0954.32%20.70%58.31%21.80%
2001-102001-11–2002-1045.67%20.70%45.44%30.66%
2001-112001-12–2002-1139.26%20.70%37.71%39.29%
2001-122002-01–2002-1238.83%20.70%38.87%39.91%
2002-012002-02–2003-0127.02%20.70%29.08%39.40%
2002-022002-03–2003-0229.57%20.70%31.75%32.31%
2002-032002-04–2003-0325.92%20.70%25.31%36.49%

US housing, 2006

Monthly mean/published index, not verified month-end closes; target-frequency mismatch. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Post-development asset-transfer illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
2004-072004-08–2005-0710.80%20.70%10.89%0.00%
2004-082004-09–2005-0810.80%20.70%10.91%0.00%
2004-092004-10–2005-0910.80%20.70%10.91%0.00%
2004-102004-11–2005-1010.79%20.70%10.91%0.00%
2004-112004-12–2005-1110.78%20.70%10.89%0.00%
2004-122005-01–2005-1210.77%20.70%10.88%0.00%
2005-012005-02–2006-0110.77%20.70%10.86%0.00%
2005-022005-03–2006-0210.76%20.70%10.85%0.00%
2005-032005-04–2006-0310.78%20.70%10.83%0.00%
2005-042005-05–2006-0410.78%20.70%10.84%0.00%
2005-052005-06–2006-0510.78%20.70%10.84%0.00%
2005-062005-07–2006-0610.78%20.70%10.84%0.00%
2005-072005-08–2006-0710.78%20.70%10.86%0.00%
2005-082005-09–2006-0810.78%20.70%10.86%0.00%
2005-092005-10–2006-0910.78%20.70%10.86%0.00%
2005-102005-11–2006-1010.79%20.70%10.89%0.00%
2005-112005-12–2006-1110.81%20.70%10.92%0.00%
2005-122006-01–2006-1210.85%20.70%11.00%0.00%
2006-012006-02–2007-0110.88%20.70%11.02%0.00%
2006-022006-03–2007-0210.90%20.70%11.06%0.00%
2006-032006-04–2007-0310.87%20.70%11.03%0.31%
2006-042006-05–2007-0410.85%20.70%11.04%0.83%
2006-052006-06–2007-0510.82%20.70%11.03%1.35%
2006-062006-07–2007-0610.79%20.70%11.05%1.63%
2006-072006-08–2007-0710.77%20.70%11.06%1.96%
2006-082006-09–2007-0810.79%20.70%11.11%2.26%
2006-092006-10–2007-0910.80%20.70%11.13%2.76%
2006-102006-11–2007-1010.82%20.70%11.16%3.54%
2006-112006-12–2007-1110.89%20.70%11.25%4.61%
2006-122007-01–2007-1210.96%20.70%11.32%5.40%
2007-012007-02–2008-0111.04%20.70%11.41%6.37%
2007-022007-03–2008-0211.06%20.70%11.43%7.28%
2007-032007-04–2008-0311.06%20.70%11.44%7.84%
2007-042007-05–2008-0411.02%20.70%11.40%8.13%
2007-052007-06–2008-0511.01%20.70%11.40%8.18%
2007-062007-07–2008-0611.04%20.70%11.43%8.27%
2007-072007-08–2008-0711.08%20.70%11.49%8.44%
2007-082007-09–2008-0811.18%20.70%11.59%8.85%
2007-092007-10–2008-0911.35%20.70%11.77%9.61%
2007-102007-11–2008-1011.57%20.70%12.01%10.35%
2007-112007-12–2008-1111.96%20.70%12.43%10.90%
2007-122008-01–2008-1212.19%20.70%12.64%12.00%
2008-012008-02–2009-0112.55%20.70%13.00%12.69%
2008-022008-03–2009-0212.80%20.70%13.24%12.75%
2008-032008-04–2009-0312.98%20.70%13.39%12.74%
2008-042008-05–2009-0413.02%20.70%13.39%12.43%
2008-052008-06–2009-0513.01%20.70%13.37%12.28%
2008-062008-07–2009-0613.00%20.70%13.37%12.02%
2008-072008-08–2009-0713.01%20.70%13.40%11.59%

China equities, 2007

Monthly mean/published index, not verified month-end closes; target-frequency mismatch. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Post-development asset-transfer illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
2005-102005-11–2006-1019.56%20.70%20.45%3.00%
2005-112005-12–2006-1119.57%20.70%20.42%0.00%
2005-122006-01–2006-1218.17%20.70%18.53%0.00%
2006-012006-02–2007-0115.85%20.70%15.67%0.00%
2006-022006-03–2007-0214.66%20.70%14.93%0.00%
2006-032006-04–2007-0314.63%20.70%15.20%0.00%
2006-042006-05–2007-0414.75%20.70%14.50%0.00%
2006-052006-06–2007-0514.91%20.70%13.69%0.00%
2006-062006-07–2007-0614.74%20.70%14.21%0.19%
2006-072006-08–2007-0714.33%20.70%13.44%4.75%
2006-082006-09–2007-0816.09%20.70%16.07%0.00%
2006-092006-10–2007-0914.56%20.70%13.87%0.00%
2006-102006-11–2007-1014.16%20.70%13.35%0.00%
2006-112006-12–2007-1113.94%20.70%12.55%0.00%
2006-122007-01–2007-1214.77%20.70%12.51%0.00%
2007-012007-02–2008-0115.81%20.70%12.99%0.00%
2007-022007-03–2008-0215.91%20.70%14.40%0.00%
2007-032007-04–2008-0315.67%20.70%13.88%0.00%
2007-042007-05–2008-0416.18%20.70%13.23%3.89%
2007-052007-06–2008-0516.17%20.70%13.49%15.66%
2007-062007-07–2008-0616.56%20.70%14.91%24.95%
2007-072007-08–2008-0716.79%20.70%15.20%30.23%
2007-082007-09–2008-0816.33%20.70%12.86%48.51%
2007-092007-10–2008-0916.26%20.70%13.32%59.48%
2007-102007-11–2008-1016.15%20.70%13.36%65.64%
2007-112007-12–2008-1121.41%20.70%19.59%64.37%
2007-122008-01–2008-1223.08%20.70%21.07%63.06%
2008-012008-02–2009-0122.37%20.70%20.67%62.89%
2008-022008-03–2009-0228.84%20.70%28.15%58.20%
2008-032008-04–2009-0336.22%20.70%35.77%52.09%
2008-042008-05–2009-0441.54%20.70%41.86%44.82%
2008-052008-06–2009-0538.65%20.70%36.80%47.37%
2008-062008-07–2009-0646.28%20.70%47.66%37.71%
2008-072008-08–2009-0748.70%20.70%48.64%33.05%
2008-082008-09–2009-0848.47%20.70%50.02%24.85%
2008-092008-10–2009-0950.10%20.70%52.66%13.63%
2008-102008-11–2009-1047.55%20.70%50.12%5.29%
2008-112008-12–2009-1148.12%20.70%49.87%0.00%
2008-122009-01–2009-1248.48%20.70%48.60%0.63%
2009-012009-02–2010-0145.50%20.70%46.72%0.00%
2009-022009-03–2010-0240.58%20.70%39.74%0.00%
2009-032009-04–2010-0336.57%20.70%37.29%0.00%
2009-042009-05–2010-0433.33%20.70%32.27%0.00%
2009-052009-06–2010-0524.16%20.70%24.81%0.00%
2009-062009-07–2010-0617.75%20.70%18.02%10.07%
2009-072009-08–2010-0718.22%20.70%17.52%22.32%
2009-082009-09–2010-0819.16%20.70%19.57%18.93%
2009-092009-10–2010-0920.42%20.70%20.46%13.69%
2009-102009-11–2010-1018.73%20.70%17.74%15.37%

China equities, 2015

Monthly mean/published index, not verified month-end closes; target-frequency mismatch. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Post-development asset-transfer illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
2013-062013-07–2014-0617.36%20.70%18.24%5.59%
2013-072013-08–2014-0719.35%20.70%20.04%0.00%
2013-082013-09–2014-0818.43%20.70%18.25%2.14%
2013-092013-10–2014-0916.88%20.70%16.54%7.16%
2013-102013-11–2014-1016.90%20.70%17.06%7.08%
2013-112013-12–2014-1117.17%20.70%17.32%6.13%
2013-122014-01–2014-1217.03%20.70%17.19%6.19%
2014-012014-02–2015-0118.51%20.70%19.38%0.50%
2014-022014-03–2015-0216.37%20.70%16.78%2.42%
2014-032014-04–2015-0316.44%20.70%17.13%0.35%
2014-042014-05–2015-0415.84%20.70%16.10%2.13%
2014-052014-06–2015-0515.39%20.70%16.14%0.00%
2014-062014-07–2015-0614.90%20.70%15.25%0.00%
2014-072014-08–2015-0713.92%20.70%14.04%0.00%
2014-082014-09–2015-0812.86%20.70%12.80%0.00%
2014-092014-10–2015-0912.78%20.70%12.86%0.00%
2014-102014-11–2015-1012.79%20.70%13.02%0.00%
2014-112014-12–2015-1112.98%20.70%12.80%0.00%
2014-122015-01–2015-1215.06%20.70%13.51%0.00%
2015-012015-02–2016-0114.73%20.70%13.50%8.47%
2015-022015-03–2016-0215.87%20.70%15.53%12.74%
2015-032015-04–2016-0314.87%20.70%13.56%19.81%
2015-042015-05–2016-0415.84%20.70%13.40%33.03%
2015-052015-06–2016-0515.42%20.70%13.61%37.45%
2015-062015-07–2016-0615.17%20.70%13.25%41.60%
2015-072015-08–2016-0728.23%20.70%28.35%27.40%
2015-082015-09–2016-0831.89%20.70%30.20%22.27%
2015-092015-10–2016-0939.38%20.70%38.63%10.77%
2015-102015-11–2016-1037.54%20.70%34.31%14.74%
2015-112015-12–2016-1134.14%20.70%30.89%21.55%
2015-122016-01–2016-1232.83%20.70%31.52%21.22%
2016-012016-02–2017-0140.76%20.70%42.02%7.18%
2016-022016-03–2017-0243.85%20.70%43.62%0.00%
2016-032016-04–2017-0341.91%20.70%40.36%1.55%
2016-042016-05–2017-0438.14%20.70%37.53%4.72%
2016-052016-06–2017-0539.24%20.70%40.10%0.00%
2016-062016-07–2017-0629.60%20.70%30.90%0.00%
2016-072016-08–2017-0723.26%20.70%23.66%0.00%
2016-082016-09–2017-0822.36%20.70%22.88%0.54%
2016-092016-10–2017-0921.33%20.70%21.50%0.00%
2016-102016-11–2017-1020.75%20.70%20.92%0.00%
2016-112016-12–2017-1118.67%20.70%18.86%3.03%
2016-122017-01–2017-1215.52%20.70%16.55%1.82%
2017-012017-02–2018-0113.64%20.70%14.07%1.26%
2017-022017-03–2018-0212.39%20.70%12.45%3.36%
2017-032017-04–2018-0312.28%20.70%12.46%4.39%
2017-042017-05–2018-0412.45%20.70%12.82%3.60%
2017-052017-06–2018-0513.31%20.70%13.74%0.00%
2017-062017-07–2018-0612.89%20.70%12.99%5.27%

Bitcoin, 2017

Last daily reference price per calendar month; not a centralized exchange close. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Post-development asset-transfer illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
2015-122016-01–2016-1229.15%20.70%27.81%14.74%
2016-012016-02–2017-0131.61%20.70%31.85%0.00%
2016-022016-03–2017-0224.19%20.70%21.54%4.98%
2016-032016-04–2017-0326.70%20.70%26.24%0.00%
2016-042016-05–2017-0424.03%20.70%22.09%0.00%
2016-052016-06–2017-0524.12%20.70%20.63%0.00%
2016-062016-07–2017-0624.99%20.70%20.36%15.13%
2016-072016-08–2017-0729.59%20.70%28.27%8.41%
2016-082016-09–2017-0831.54%20.70%29.20%0.00%
2016-092016-10–2017-0928.50%20.70%24.75%0.00%
2016-102016-11–2017-1022.09%20.70%19.16%0.00%
2016-112016-12–2017-1121.48%20.70%19.71%0.00%
2016-122017-01–2017-1223.00%20.70%18.71%0.05%
2017-012017-02–2018-0121.00%20.70%18.93%0.00%
2017-022017-03–2018-0221.23%20.70%17.19%8.97%
2017-032017-04–2018-0325.97%20.70%24.14%0.00%
2017-042017-05–2018-0422.79%20.70%17.83%0.00%
2017-052017-06–2018-0528.64%20.70%19.09%0.00%
2017-062017-07–2018-0628.19%20.70%23.92%0.00%
2017-072017-08–2018-0726.91%20.70%21.02%0.00%
2017-082017-09–2018-0829.27%20.70%17.70%8.56%
2017-092017-10–2018-0936.07%20.70%29.81%0.00%
2017-102017-11–2018-1032.70%20.70%21.00%1.90%
2017-112017-12–2018-1133.92%20.70%20.23%60.25%
2017-122018-01–2018-1234.24%20.70%21.39%73.51%
2018-012018-02–2019-0159.19%20.70%52.63%66.07%
2018-022018-03–2019-0258.77%20.70%47.81%66.91%
2018-032018-04–2019-0377.71%20.70%74.11%50.74%
2018-042018-05–2019-0469.66%20.70%56.42%63.05%
2018-052018-06–2019-0575.48%20.70%72.25%54.40%
2018-062018-07–2019-0680.05%20.70%77.00%46.51%
2018-072018-08–2019-0775.88%20.70%68.43%55.86%
2018-082018-09–2019-0874.97%20.70%73.06%51.46%
2018-092018-10–2019-0976.28%20.70%73.74%48.37%
2018-102018-11–2019-1074.45%20.70%73.09%45.93%
2018-112018-12–2019-1180.84%20.70%85.13%14.17%
2018-122019-01–2019-1273.52%20.70%76.58%7.51%
2019-012019-02–2020-0173.48%20.70%75.50%0.00%
2019-022019-03–2020-0270.02%20.70%70.11%0.00%
2019-032019-04–2020-0365.17%20.70%63.74%0.00%
2019-042019-05–2020-0449.42%20.70%47.35%0.00%
2019-052019-06–2020-0536.98%20.70%31.45%24.82%
2019-062019-07–2020-0637.24%20.70%33.37%40.67%
2019-072019-08–2020-0741.26%20.70%42.49%36.05%
2019-082019-09–2020-0843.60%20.70%43.80%33.03%
2019-092019-10–2020-0952.14%20.70%53.32%22.34%
2019-102019-11–2020-1046.98%20.70%44.31%29.74%
2019-112019-12–2020-1149.44%20.70%48.50%14.87%
2019-122020-01–2020-1251.54%20.70%48.03%10.25%

Bitcoin, 2021

Last daily reference price per calendar month; not a centralized exchange close. Out of training population: price/asset/country or portfolio transfer; numeric probabilities unvalidated. Post-development asset-transfer illustration.

Forecast originOutcome windowModelConstantFull modelObserved future loss
2019-112019-12–2020-1149.44%20.70%48.50%14.87%
2019-122020-01–2020-1251.54%20.70%48.03%10.25%
2020-012020-02–2021-0139.35%20.70%31.69%31.26%
2020-022020-03–2021-0244.78%20.70%42.25%25.05%
2020-032020-04–2021-0361.43%20.70%62.13%0.00%
2020-042020-05–2021-0449.14%20.70%42.44%0.00%
2020-052020-06–2021-0537.20%20.70%36.16%3.07%
2020-062020-07–2021-0632.74%20.70%34.78%0.00%
2020-072020-08–2021-0729.25%20.70%27.53%4.99%
2020-082020-09–2021-0829.14%20.70%29.46%7.76%
2020-092020-10–2021-0932.76%20.70%33.72%0.00%
2020-102020-11–2021-1030.01%20.70%26.73%0.00%
2020-112020-12–2021-1130.88%20.70%24.27%0.00%
2020-122021-01–2021-1232.92%20.70%24.04%0.00%
2021-012021-02–2022-0132.15%20.70%26.85%0.00%
2021-022021-03–2022-0231.92%20.70%23.10%22.69%
2021-032021-04–2022-0325.19%20.70%16.58%40.36%
2021-042021-05–2022-0426.83%20.70%21.38%39.27%
2021-052021-06–2022-0559.84%20.70%58.78%14.69%
2021-062021-07–2022-0662.49%20.70%55.66%44.87%
2021-072021-08–2022-0755.15%20.70%45.60%53.74%
2021-082021-09–2022-0848.99%20.70%40.69%59.06%
2021-092021-10–2022-0952.69%20.70%46.82%55.84%
2021-102021-11–2022-1037.52%20.70%28.28%68.53%
2021-112021-12–2022-1140.98%20.70%38.41%69.92%
2021-122022-01–2022-1251.09%20.70%51.90%64.35%
2022-012022-02–2023-0160.34%20.70%61.25%57.04%
2022-022022-03–2023-0252.72%20.70%50.55%61.73%
2022-032022-04–2023-0347.68%20.70%47.75%63.73%
2022-042022-05–2023-0456.83%20.70%60.31%56.19%
2022-052022-06–2023-0557.02%20.70%58.01%48.09%
2022-062022-07–2023-0675.84%20.70%80.40%14.53%
2022-072022-08–2023-0772.78%20.70%69.96%29.25%
2022-082022-09–2023-0874.83%20.70%76.83%17.48%
2022-092022-10–2023-0975.33%20.70%75.70%14.98%
2022-102022-11–2023-1068.30%20.70%69.02%19.36%
2022-112022-12–2023-1167.87%20.70%72.06%3.80%
2022-122023-01–2023-1267.93%20.70%69.61%0.00%
2023-012023-02–2024-0164.57%20.70%59.85%0.00%
2023-022023-03–2024-0263.75%20.70%64.41%0.00%
2023-032023-04–2024-0350.06%20.70%48.99%8.98%
2023-042023-05–2024-0438.77%20.70%40.73%11.60%
2023-052023-06–2024-0537.83%20.70%40.92%4.64%
2023-062023-07–2024-0624.86%20.70%23.16%14.86%
2023-072023-08–2024-0726.07%20.70%26.72%11.17%
2023-082023-09–2024-0831.22%20.70%32.00%0.00%
2023-092023-10–2024-0929.27%20.70%27.98%0.00%
2023-102023-11–2024-1025.27%20.70%21.84%0.00%
2023-112023-12–2024-1123.26%20.70%20.81%0.00%

Download full protocol, model comparisons and chart data. Independent audits rebuilt raw labels, features, partition membership, predictions, block intervals and all 490 historical case rows. Those arithmetic checks do not establish economic validity.

US railroads: the complete 1868–1878 comparison

US railroad monthly stock-price index, 1868–1878; April 1872 = 100monthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Jan 1868: 76.33Feb 1868: 78.10Mar 1868: 77.70Apr 1868: 77.23May 1868: 79.91Jun 1868: 81.22Jul 1868: 81.24Aug 1868: 80.40Sep 1868: 81.11Oct 1868: 82.32Nov 1868: 80.00Dec 1868: 81.59Jan 1869: 84.58Feb 1869: 85.22Mar 1869: 84.58Apr 1869: 86.04May 1869: 89.80Jun 1869: 90.62Jul 1869: 90.42Aug 1869: 91.68Sep 1869: 85.73Oct 1869: 85.04Nov 1869: 84.42Dec 1869: 83.01Jan 1870: 84.23Feb 1870: 86.92Mar 1870: 86.39Apr 1870: 87.74May 1870: 91.19Jun 1870: 91.90Jul 1870: 89.09Aug 1870: 87.48Sep 1870: 88.25Oct 1870: 88.63Nov 1870: 88.63Dec 1870: 87.63Jan 1871: 87.83Feb 1871: 88.74Mar 1871: 90.64Apr 1871: 93.03May 1871: 95.13Jun 1871: 94.45Jul 1871: 92.72Aug 1871: 93.32Sep 1871: 93.76Oct 1871: 89.05Nov 1871: 89.78Dec 1871: 91.55Jan 1872: 93.56Feb 1872: 94.14Mar 1872: 97.06Apr 1872: 100.00May 1872: 99.62Jun 1872: 98.58Jul 1872: 97.77Aug 1872: 96.39Sep 1872: 95.20Oct 1872: 95.02Nov 1872: 94.42Dec 1872: 96.95Jan 1873: 97.90Feb 1873: 99.09Mar 1873: 98.27Apr 1873: 96.59May 1873: 96.75Jun 1873: 95.93Jul 1873: 95.60Aug 1873: 95.09Sep 1873: 87.92Oct 1873: 80.58Nov 1873: 77.68Dec 1873: 84.69Jan 1874: 89.29Feb 1874: 91.75Mar 1874: 90.11Apr 1874: 87.65May 1874: 85.40Jun 1874: 84.58Jul 1874: 84.71Aug 1874: 85.22Sep 1874: 86.48Oct 1874: 86.19Nov 1874: 86.39Dec 1874: 86.50Jan 1875: 87.19Feb 1875: 86.88Mar 1875: 87.70Apr 1875: 88.63May 1875: 84.80Jun 1875: 83.23Jul 1875: 83.30Aug 1875: 83.63Sep 1875: 82.79Oct 1875: 81.64Nov 1875: 82.70Dec 1875: 82.70Jan 1876: 84.71Feb 1876: 86.00Mar 1876: 86.33Apr 1876: 82.92May 1876: 79.49Jun 1876: 78.76Jul 1876: 77.92Aug 1876: 74.45Sep 1876: 70.15Oct 1876: 69.45Nov 1876: 67.96Dec 1876: 67.59Jan 1877: 67.01Feb 1877: 62.81Mar 1877: 59.85Apr 1877: 55.46May 1877: 55.29Jun 1877: 52.19Jul 1877: 53.96Aug 1877: 57.46Sep 1877: 61.28Oct 1877: 63.01Nov 1877: 61.88Dec 1877: 61.59Jan 1878: 61.59Feb 1878: 60.35Mar 1878: 61.39Apr 1878: 63.30May 1878: 63.32Jun 1878: 65.02Jul 1878: 66.17Aug 1878: 65.40Sep 1878: 66.81Oct 1878: 66.17Nov 1878: 65.93Dec 1878: 65.69September 1873 panicJune 1877 trough01/6801/7001/7201/7401/7601/78

April 1872 = 100; September 1873 marks the panic; June 1877 is the later trough, 47.81% below the reference. These dates are distinct. The compact dashboard’s fixed ±24-month window ends before this trough.

Full monthly observations
MonthIndex · April 1872 = 100
1868-0176.327
1868-0278.097
1868-0377.699
1868-0477.235
1868-0579.912
1868-0681.217
1868-0781.239
1868-0880.398
1868-0981.106
1868-1082.323
1868-1180.000
1868-1281.593
1869-0184.580
1869-0285.221
1869-0384.580
1869-0486.040
1869-0589.801
1869-0690.619
1869-0790.420
1869-0891.681
1869-0985.730
1869-1085.044
1869-1184.425
1869-1283.009
1870-0184.226
1870-0286.925
1870-0386.394
1870-0487.743
1870-0591.195
1870-0691.903
1870-0789.093
1870-0887.478
1870-0988.252
1870-1088.628
1870-1188.628
1870-1287.633
1871-0187.832
1871-0288.739
1871-0390.642
1871-0493.031
1871-0595.133
1871-0694.447
1871-0792.721
1871-0893.319
1871-0993.761
1871-1089.049
1871-1189.779
1871-1291.549
1872-0193.562
1872-0294.137
1872-0397.058
1872-04100.000
1872-0599.624
1872-0698.584
1872-0797.765
1872-0896.394
1872-0995.199
1872-1095.022
1872-1194.425
1872-1296.947
1873-0197.898
1873-0299.093
1873-0398.274
1873-0496.593
1873-0596.748
1873-0695.929
1873-0795.597
1873-0895.088
1873-0987.920
1873-1080.575
1873-1177.677
1873-1284.690
1874-0189.292
1874-0291.748
1874-0390.111
1874-0487.655
1874-0585.398
1874-0684.580
1874-0784.712
1874-0885.221
1874-0986.482
1874-1086.195
1874-1186.394
1874-1286.504
1875-0187.190
1875-0286.881
1875-0387.699
1875-0488.628
1875-0584.801
1875-0683.230
1875-0783.296
1875-0883.628
1875-0982.788
1875-1081.637
1875-1182.699
1875-1282.699
1876-0184.712
1876-0285.996
1876-0386.327
1876-0482.920
1876-0579.491
1876-0678.761
1876-0777.920
1876-0874.447
1876-0970.155
1876-1069.447
1876-1167.965
1876-1267.588
1877-0167.013
1877-0262.810
1877-0359.845
1877-0455.465
1877-0555.288
1877-0652.190
1877-0753.960
1877-0857.456
1877-0961.283
1877-1063.009
1877-1161.881
1877-1261.593
1878-0161.593
1878-0260.354
1878-0361.394
1878-0463.296
1878-0563.319
1878-0665.022
1878-0766.173
1878-0865.398
1878-0966.814
1878-1066.173
1878-1165.929
1878-1265.686

What the monthly percentage means

At month-end, estimate the chance that the next monthly observation is at least 20% below the highest of the most recent 12 monthly observations. Only estimate entry when the current observation is above that barrier. The barrier is fixed when the estimate is made. An ineligible month is blank, not a zero chance of further losses.

Hₜ = max(Pₜ₋₁₁, …, Pₜ)
Eligible if Pₜ > 0.8 Hₜ
Yₜ₊₁ = 1 if Pₜ₊₁ ≤ 0.8 Hₜ, otherwise 0
pₜ₊₁ = 1 / (1 + exp(−[β₀ + Σ βⱼ(xⱼ−μⱼ)/sⱼ]))

Inputs: one-month log return, 12-month log return, sample standard deviation of the last 12 monthly log returns, and drawdown from the trailing 12-month peak. These return-path variables measure proximity to a drawdown barrier. Valuations, capex, interest rates and energy commitments are separate diagnostics; this model has not established their incremental predictive value.

featuretraining meantraining sdcoefficient
ret10.0170.063-0.095
ret120.1730.218-0.206
vol120.0590.0340.388
drawdown-0.0490.056-1.095

Intercept: -4.160481551. Ridge penalty: 0.01. Training base rate: 3.94%. Feature scaling uses the training population standard deviation; the volatility predictor uses a sample standard deviation.

Literature and the limits of this design

Greenwood, Shleifer & You, Bubbles for Fama motivates studying run-ups, volatility and subsequent crash risk across the full opportunity set. This one-month barrier target is an original exploratory design, not a replication of that paper’s longer-horizon crash definition. Proper scoring rules motivate evaluating probability forecasts with Brier error and calibration, rather than showcasing a few famous crashes.

The separate price-exuberance percentile on the dashboard uses a right-tailed autoregression and bootstrap null. It measures an unusual price path, not the probability a bubble exists. Its original protocol, sensitivity checks and ten-case benchmark remain below.

Time split and reproducibility

49 US industry total-return portfolios. Training target months through December 1984; development 1987–1997; test 2000–2024. Two-year gaps separate periods. Standardization is fitted on training only; development Brier error selects a penalty from four frozen candidates. Test data do not select features, coefficients, threshold or calibration. The 10% alarm cutoff was fixed before evaluation.

The protocol was frozen before the first fit in this task, not prospectively registered decades ago. The data are revised; the literature itself incorporates historical knowledge. Industry observations overlap, so uncertainty resamples entire calendar years with all industries together. It does not fully capture dependence across years or model-selection uncertainty.

Charts before training ends are future-trained backcasts; the 1989 case belongs to the development era. Later asset examples are transfers to different markets and often monthly means. None are contemporaneous, point-in-time trading records.

Actual forecast performance

Lower Brier score is better. The baseline is the constant training event prevalence, kept fixed in the test. The ten selected boom/bust charts are not used to calculate these rates.

sampleeligible observationsentriesBrierbaseline Brierskillimprovement 95 intervalhitsfalse alarmsmissestrue negativesprecisionrecall
US industry test12649.000507.0000.0320.03817.36%0.004132 to 0.010261361.000984.000146.00011158.00026.84%71.20%
Nasdaq transfer test251.0006.0000.0220.0245.97%-0.002002 to 0.0053184.00016.0002.000229.00020.00%66.67%

The industry test improves Brier error, but its probabilities are visibly miscalibrated. Nasdaq has only six events; its improvement interval includes zero. At 10%, the Nasdaq model catches four entries, misses two, and produces sixteen false alarms. An always-no-entry prediction has higher classification accuracy; rarity makes “accuracy” a poor headline here.

Calibration: industry holdout

Predicted 0.57%, observed 0.11%, n=6510Predicted 1.59%, observed 0.60%, n=2521Predicted 3.52%, observed 3.03%, n=1321Predicted 7.06%, observed 8.82%, n=952Predicted 14.28%, observed 20.08%, n=792Predicted 26.03%, observed 36.66%, n=521Predicted 47.03%, observed 36.67%, n=30Predicted 72.12%, observed 0.00%, n=20%100%Predicted frequency →Observed ↑

Each dot is a forecast bin; the diagonal is perfect calibration. Dot size reflects sample size. Hover for exact values.

forecast binmonthspredictedobservedevents
0.00%–1.00%6510.0000.57%0.11%7.000
1.00%–2.50%2521.0001.59%0.60%15.000
2.50%–5.00%1321.0003.52%3.03%40.000
5.00%–10.00%952.0007.06%8.82%84.000
10.00%–20.00%792.00014.28%20.08%159.000
20.00%–40.00%521.00026.03%36.66%191.000
40.00%–60.00%30.00047.03%36.67%11.000
60.00%–80.00%2.00072.12%0.00%0.000
80.00%–100.00%0.000——0.000

Why low monthly odds are not an all-clear

The model is mostly a drawdown-entry detector, not an early warning of fundamental overvaluation or a market top. The original ten example peak-month estimates are all below the 10% alert threshold; the next monthly observation at those peaks also does not satisfy this narrowly defined target.

US housing declined about 27.4% from July 2006 to February 2012, yet generated no crossing under this rolling 12-month definition in 2006–2012. A slowly declining peak lowers the barrier. This limitation is retained openly, rather than changing the target after seeing a miss. Repeated entries after recovery are possible; event counts are not counts of distinct bubbles.

Independent audits recomputed labels, standardization, sample volatility, predictions, Brier errors and confusion counts. The chart pipeline independently reproduces exported probabilities within 5 × 10⁻¹¹. These numerical checks do not establish economic validity or calibrated AI probabilities.

Railroads: measured US prices, reconstructed UK history

US railroads use Macaulay’s monthly chain price index, independently matched between NBER originals and FRED, with zero discrepancies. This is a stock-price index, not total return. Unreliable 1855–1856 values are excluded. The declared 1868–1878 window peaks in April 1872; the September 1873 panic is 17 months later. The subsequent June 1877 trough is 47.81% below that peak. The compact chart is a shorter fixed comparison window. The full series is plotted above.

High-grade railroad bond yields are a separate monthly borrowing-cost series. They are not equity yields or P/E. A financing panic can occur without an aggregate railroad equity price bubble.

British Railway Mania, 1843–1850

0100020001843184518471850

Digitized approximation from Campbell (2013), Figure 1: 417 original PDF vector vertices. Weekly indices, January 1843 ≈ 1000; allowance of ±2 index points and inferred dates approximately ±1 week. Solid / dashed curves assume 0% / 100% shareholder loss on delisting. Dividends are excluded; returns adjust for capital calls. Four independently printed peak/trough values match extraction within one point. These are not raw transaction data and do not enter the monthly forecasting benchmark.

Campbell, Deriving the Railway Mania and Myopic Rationality in a Mania document partly paid shares and future capital calls. Investors could lose their paid stake and face additional calls; the economics differ from fully paid stock. Short-run dividend expectations explain part of the mania in this literature, so the price curve alone is not proof of irrationality.

Actual dated UK valuation observations

Dividend yields

daterail nrail mean dividend yield pctrail sd dividend yield pctnonrail nnonrail mean dividend yield pctnonrail sd dividend yield pctrail mean par equity million gbpnonrail mean par equity million gbp
1843-01-06195.642.42224.7511.441.72
1843-12-29223.581.34224.611.011.381.72
1844-12-27213.591.03224.351.161.551.73
1845-08-08223.151.12224.261.041.871.73
1845-12-26213.731.1224.741.622.011.73
1846-12-25194.651.3225.022.22.481.73
1847-12-31185.891.49215.151.434.141.77
1848-12-29216.751.7215.481.994.821.77
1849-12-28156.283.01224.941.935.031.75
1850-12-27183.650.92224.841.615.91.76

Cross-sectional means. Ten selected dates, not a complete monthly series; reciprocal yield is not a measured P/E.

Price / par

dateestablished dividend payer nestablished dividend payer price parestablished nonpayer nestablished nonpayer price parnew rail nnew rail price par
1843-01-06191.0230.550
1843-12-29221.2540.590
1844-12-27211.520.89391.06
1845-08-08211.831.08711.14
1845-12-26211.621.081151.05
1846-12-25181.3631.111001.01
1847-12-31171.120760.89
1848-12-29200.880600.74
1849-12-28150.740.43590.66
1850-12-27180.7730.49460.67

Part-paid shares are adjusted to fully paid equivalents by adding future calls discounted at 3% to price and par. Author-modeled call-adjusted ratios, not P/B or unadjusted share prices.

Capital-call cohorts

royal assent cohortnaverage paid up pctpartial paid return pctpartial paid return se pcthypothetical full paid return pcthypothetical full paid return se pctreturn difference pctreturn difference se pct
18441026.757.519.516.66.240.914.8
184529243616.48.7427.312.7
18461724.721.816.16.6415.212.5
1847216.3-19.655.4-2.79.2-1746.1
Overall5824.433.710.29.12.624.67.9

Royal-assent cohorts, not calendar annual returns. Partial-paid observed returns and hypothetical fully-paid returns differ in financing assumptions; the 1847 cohort contains only two firms.

Historical observations & who bore the downside

Shared price normalization is for visual comparison only and uses a hindsight reference. Risk estimates use only earlier observations and frozen coefficients. Annual P/E points are not filled into missing months. Japan uses NRI 350 reported earnings; China uses SSE year-end observations. Dot-com and current AI valuations use broad US market context, not Nasdaq or AI-only P/E.

US railroads · 1873

Reference 1872-04. US railroad monthly chain price index. future-trained historical illustration. April 1872 price peak; September 1873 panic is +17 months. Window is not the full bust.

First exposed: Railroad shareholders faced falling equity values; railroad bondholders and lending banks faced defaults and refinancing failures. Recoveries depended on the security and reorganization, so the stock-price index is not a bondholder loss estimate.

Transmission: Railroad funding difficulties contributed to Jay Cooke & Co. suspending payments on September 18, 1873. Loss of confidence spread to other banks and depositors, disrupting withdrawals, credit, and payments; business failures and unemployment transmitted the shock beyond securities holders.

Public burden: Workers, households, and businesses bore wider economic disruption. These sources do not establish a comprehensive taxpayer-loss total or a public/private share of losses; neither is estimated here.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 · Risk evidence 2 ·

US railroads · 1873 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Apr 1870: 87.74May 1870: 91.19Jun 1870: 91.90Jul 1870: 89.09Aug 1870: 87.48Sep 1870: 88.25Oct 1870: 88.63Nov 1870: 88.63Dec 1870: 87.63Jan 1871: 87.83Feb 1871: 88.74Mar 1871: 90.64Apr 1871: 93.03May 1871: 95.13Jun 1871: 94.45Jul 1871: 92.72Aug 1871: 93.32Sep 1871: 93.76Oct 1871: 89.05Nov 1871: 89.78Dec 1871: 91.55Jan 1872: 93.56Feb 1872: 94.14Mar 1872: 97.06Apr 1872: 100.00May 1872: 99.62Jun 1872: 98.58Jul 1872: 97.77Aug 1872: 96.39Sep 1872: 95.20Oct 1872: 95.02Nov 1872: 94.42Dec 1872: 96.95Jan 1873: 97.90Feb 1873: 99.09Mar 1873: 98.27Apr 1873: 96.59May 1873: 96.75Jun 1873: 95.93Jul 1873: 95.60Aug 1873: 95.09Sep 1873: 87.92Oct 1873: 80.58Nov 1873: 77.68Dec 1873: 84.69Jan 1874: 89.29Feb 1874: 91.75Mar 1874: 90.11Apr 1874: 87.65-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
1870-04-24.00087.7431870-031.5400.000true
1870-05-23.00091.1951870-041.1250.000true
1870-06-22.00091.9031870-050.5250.000true
1870-07-21.00089.0931870-060.4970.000true
1870-08-20.00087.4781870-070.9930.000true
1870-09-19.00088.2521870-081.4060.000true
1870-10-18.00088.6281870-090.9780.000true
1870-11-17.00088.6281870-100.8980.000true
1870-12-16.00087.6331870-110.8950.000true
1871-01-15.00087.8321870-121.1090.000true
1871-02-14.00088.7391871-011.0510.000true
1871-03-13.00090.6421871-020.8580.000true
1871-04-12.00093.0311871-030.5560.000true
1871-05-11.00095.1331871-040.4230.000true
1871-06-10.00094.4471871-050.4220.000true
1871-07-9.00092.7211871-060.5150.000true
1871-08-8.00093.3191871-070.7190.000true
1871-09-7.00093.7611871-080.5890.000true
1871-10-6.00089.0491871-090.5410.000true
1871-11-5.00089.7791871-101.7530.000true
1871-12-4.00091.5491871-111.3760.000true
1872-01-3.00093.5621871-120.9220.000true
1872-02-2.00094.1371872-010.6040.000true
1872-03-1.00097.0581872-020.5520.000true
1872-040.000100.0001872-030.4350.000true
1872-051.00099.6241872-040.4350.000true
1872-062.00098.5841872-050.5020.000true
1872-073.00097.7651872-060.6230.000true
1872-084.00096.3941872-070.7150.000true
1872-095.00095.1991872-080.9640.000true
1872-106.00095.0221872-091.2350.000true
1872-117.00094.4251872-101.1110.000true
1872-128.00096.9471872-111.2760.000true
1873-019.00097.8981872-120.7490.000true
1873-0210.00099.0931873-010.6410.000true
1873-0311.00098.2741873-020.5050.000true
1873-0412.00096.5931873-030.6200.000true
1873-0513.00096.7481873-040.8250.000true
1873-0614.00095.9291873-050.7010.000true
1873-0715.00095.5971873-060.8320.000true
1873-0816.00095.0881873-070.8760.000true
1873-0917.00087.9201873-080.9560.000true
1873-1018.00080.5751873-095.1560.000true
1873-1119.00077.6771873-1021.8091.000true
1873-1220.00084.6901873-11——false
1874-0121.00089.2921873-129.4620.000true
1874-0222.00091.7481874-014.2660.000true
1874-0323.00090.1111874-022.3930.000true
1874-0424.00087.6551874-032.6930.000true
Valuations and investment observations

No verified P/E. unavailable. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

No observations acquired.

No observations acquired.

dateoffsetyield
1870-04-24.0006.403
1870-05-23.0006.350
1870-06-22.0006.304
1870-07-21.0006.297
1870-08-20.0006.368
1870-09-19.0006.394
1870-10-18.0006.412
1870-11-17.0006.431
1870-12-16.0006.468
1871-01-15.0006.418
1871-02-14.0006.383
1871-03-13.0006.369
1871-04-12.0006.355
1871-05-11.0006.312
1871-06-10.0006.307
1871-07-9.0006.301
1871-08-8.0006.270
1871-09-7.0006.250
1871-10-6.0006.368
1871-11-5.0006.412
1871-12-4.0006.359
1872-01-3.0006.174
1872-02-2.0006.139
1872-03-1.0006.213
1872-040.0006.199
1872-051.0006.196
1872-062.0006.155
1872-073.0006.074
1872-084.0006.131
1872-095.0006.189
1872-106.0006.224
1872-117.0006.262
1872-128.0006.266
1873-019.0006.190
1873-0210.0006.166
1873-0311.0006.170
1873-0412.0006.187
1873-0513.0006.160
1873-0614.0006.118
1873-0715.0006.062
1873-0816.0006.062
1873-0917.0006.166
1873-1018.0006.486
1873-1119.0006.497
1873-1220.0006.304
1874-0121.0006.080
1874-0222.0005.979
1874-0323.0005.966
1874-0424.0005.943

US stocks, 1929

Reference 1929-09. SHILLER_SP · monthly mean / revised. future-trained historical illustration.

First exposed: Equity holders, including investors buying on margin.

Transmission: Brokers and lenders faced margin-loan and liquidity stress; later banking panics harmed depositors and borrowers.

Public burden: Federal Reserve Bank of New York supplied liquidity. Distinguish the1929crash from the later1930–33banking collapse; a crash alone does not establish all Depression losses.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 · Risk evidence 2 ·

US stocks, 1929 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Sep 1927: 54.12Oct 1927: 53.29Nov 1927: 54.50Dec 1927: 55.78Jan 1928: 56.01Feb 1928: 55.34Mar 1928: 58.31Apr 1928: 61.98May 1928: 63.90Jun 1928: 60.77Jul 1928: 61.21Aug 1928: 63.19Sep 1928: 67.64Oct 1928: 69.01Nov 1928: 73.67Dec 1928: 73.96Jan 1929: 79.42Feb 1929: 79.84Mar 1929: 81.25Apr 1929: 80.77May 1929: 81.98Jun 1929: 83.55Jul 1929: 90.99Aug 1929: 96.17Sep 1929: 100.00Oct 1929: 89.42Nov 1929: 65.75Dec 1929: 68.37Jan 1930: 69.36Feb 1930: 73.71Mar 1930: 76.49Apr 1930: 81.34May 1930: 76.49Jun 1930: 68.75Jul 1930: 67.28Aug 1930: 66.42Sep 1930: 66.39Oct 1930: 57.25Nov 1930: 53.10Dec 1930: 49.55Jan 1931: 51.05Feb 1931: 54.95Mar 1931: 56.01Apr 1931: 50.67May 1931: 45.78Jun 1931: 44.31Jul 1931: 45.78Aug 1931: 44.41Sep 1931: 37.80-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
1927-09-24.00054.1211927-080.3540.000true
1927-10-23.00053.2911927-090.3510.000true
1927-11-22.00054.5051927-100.5140.000true
1927-12-21.00055.7831927-110.3570.000true
1928-01-20.00056.0061927-120.3570.000true
1928-02-19.00055.3351928-010.3590.000true
1928-03-18.00058.3071928-020.4910.000true
1928-04-17.00061.9811928-030.3480.000true
1928-05-16.00063.8981928-040.3410.000true
1928-06-15.00060.7671928-050.3580.000true
1928-07-14.00061.2141928-061.2090.000true
1928-08-13.00063.1951928-070.9860.000true
1928-09-12.00067.6361928-080.5250.000true
1928-10-11.00069.0101928-090.4040.000true
1928-11-10.00073.6741928-100.4120.000true
1928-12-9.00073.9621928-110.3790.000true
1929-01-8.00079.4251928-120.4260.000true
1929-02-7.00079.8401929-010.3700.000true
1929-03-6.00081.2461929-020.3950.000true
1929-04-5.00080.7671929-030.3990.000true
1929-05-4.00081.9811929-040.4900.000true
1929-06-3.00083.5461929-050.4300.000true
1929-07-2.00090.9901929-060.3660.000true
1929-08-1.00096.1661929-070.3220.000true
1929-090.000100.0001929-080.3320.000true
1929-101.00089.4251929-090.3430.000true
1929-112.00065.7511929-104.6481.000true
1929-123.00068.3711929-11——false
1930-014.00069.3611929-12——false
1930-025.00073.7061930-01——false
1930-036.00076.4861930-02——false
1930-047.00081.3421930-03——false
1930-058.00076.4861930-0430.5071.000true
1930-069.00068.7541930-05——false
1930-0710.00067.2841930-06——false
1930-0811.00066.4221930-07——false
1930-0912.00066.3901930-08——false
1930-1013.00057.2521930-09——false
1930-1114.00053.0991930-10——false
1930-1215.00049.5531930-11——false
1931-0116.00051.0541930-12——false
1931-0217.00054.9521931-01——false
1931-0318.00056.0061931-02——false
1931-0419.00050.6711931-03——false
1931-0520.00045.7831931-04——false
1931-0621.00044.3131931-05——false
1931-0722.00045.7831931-06——false
1931-0823.00044.4091931-07——false
1931-0924.00037.7961931-08——false
Valuations and investment observations

US broad equity market. monthly; source earnings interpolated. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

dateoffsetpecape
1927-09-24.00014.82117.819
1927-10-23.00014.73517.537
1927-11-22.00015.21918.131
1927-12-21.00015.73018.647
1928-01-20.00015.47218.806
1928-02-19.00014.99618.869
1928-03-18.00015.50619.943
1928-04-17.00016.16721.258
1928-05-16.00016.36721.833
1928-06-15.00015.27720.913
1928-07-14.00015.11021.082
1928-08-13.00015.33321.762
1928-09-12.00016.13623.005
1928-10-11.00016.18023.578
1928-11-10.00016.99325.122
1928-12-9.00016.77525.302
1929-01-8.00017.77027.083
1929-02-7.00017.62327.132
1929-03-6.00017.68427.676
1929-04-5.00017.35127.568
1929-05-4.00017.38527.699
1929-06-3.00017.49227.935
1929-07-2.00018.81129.933
1929-08-1.00019.63531.480
1929-090.00020.16832.564
1929-101.00017.80528.961
1929-112.00012.93521.171
1929-123.00013.29222.007
1930-014.00013.94322.311
1930-025.00015.34923.697
1930-036.00016.51024.587
1930-047.00018.22525.843
1930-058.00017.82624.310
1930-069.00016.68221.867
1930-0710.00017.02521.549
1930-0811.00017.57421.301
1930-0912.00018.38921.073
1930-1013.00016.63918.215
1930-1114.00016.24616.940
1930-1215.00015.99016.055
1931-0116.00017.00016.705
1931-0217.00018.90118.161
1931-0318.00019.92018.580
1931-0419.00018.65916.872
1931-0520.00017.47615.402
1931-0621.00017.55715.062
1931-0722.00018.85515.517
1931-0823.00019.04115.006
1931-0924.00016.90012.818

No observations acquired.

Gold, 1980

Reference 1980-01. GOLD_WB · monthly mean / revised. future-trained historical illustration.

First exposed: Long gold holders bore the price decline.

Transmission: Leveraged long positions add margin-call exposure; no quantified gold-specific creditor loss allocation acquired.

Public burden: No gold-specific public loss allocation established here. Do not transfer the Hunt brothers silver losses to gold.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 ·

Gold, 1980 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Jan 1978: 25.64Feb 1978: 26.38Mar 1978: 27.19Apr 1978: 25.96May 1978: 26.11Jun 1978: 27.21Jul 1978: 27.95Aug 1978: 30.55Sep 1978: 31.40Oct 1978: 33.68Nov 1978: 30.53Dec 1978: 30.78Jan 1979: 33.66Feb 1979: 36.38Mar 1979: 35.84Apr 1979: 35.41May 1979: 38.14Jun 1979: 41.32Jul 1979: 43.65Aug 1979: 44.55Sep 1979: 52.56Oct 1979: 58.00Nov 1979: 58.05Dec 1979: 67.39Jan 1980: 100.00Feb 1980: 98.52Mar 1980: 81.97Apr 1980: 76.62May 1980: 76.08Jun 1980: 88.95Jul 1980: 95.26Aug 1980: 92.87Sep 1980: 99.75Oct 1980: 97.90Nov 1980: 92.52Dec 1980: 79.71Jan 1981: 82.54Feb 1981: 74.00Mar 1981: 73.91Apr 1981: 73.42May 1981: 71.03Jun 1981: 68.28Jul 1981: 60.58Aug 1981: 60.74Sep 1981: 65.71Oct 1981: 64.82Nov 1981: 61.21Dec 1981: 60.73Jan 1982: 56.88-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
1978-01-24.00025.6451977-120.5770.000true
1978-02-23.00026.3791978-010.3960.000true
1978-03-22.00027.1891978-020.4260.000true
1978-04-21.00025.9551978-030.4210.000true
1978-05-20.00026.1081978-041.2580.000true
1978-06-19.00027.2101978-051.0090.000true
1978-07-18.00027.9471978-060.3930.000true
1978-08-17.00030.5491978-070.3980.000true
1978-09-16.00031.4051978-080.3560.000true
1978-10-15.00033.6791978-090.3920.000true
1978-11-14.00030.5341978-100.3680.000true
1978-12-13.00030.7781978-113.7360.000true
1979-01-12.00033.6561978-122.7240.000true
1979-02-11.00036.3791979-010.4700.000true
1979-03-10.00035.8431979-020.4630.000true
1979-04-9.00035.4071979-030.7480.000true
1979-05-8.00038.1441979-040.8780.000true
1979-06-7.00041.3251979-050.4380.000true
1979-07-6.00043.6451979-060.4270.000true
1979-08-5.00044.5451979-070.4340.000true
1979-09-4.00052.5611979-080.4750.000true
1979-10-3.00057.9971979-090.3850.000true
1979-11-2.00058.0461979-100.4210.000true
1979-12-1.00067.3881979-110.3780.000true
1980-010.000100.0001979-120.2780.000true
1980-021.00098.5211980-010.2640.000true
1980-032.00081.9741980-020.7430.000true
1980-043.00076.6181980-0326.4261.000true
1980-054.00076.0841980-04——false
1980-065.00088.9551980-05——false
1980-076.00095.2561980-066.0330.000true
1980-087.00092.8681980-072.0840.000true
1980-098.00099.7511980-083.9940.000true
1980-109.00097.9031980-090.9810.000true
1980-1110.00092.5161980-101.7960.000true
1980-1211.00079.7061980-115.6491.000true
1981-0112.00082.5381980-12——false
1981-0213.00074.0051981-0126.2351.000true
1981-0314.00073.9081981-02——false
1981-0415.00073.4181981-03——false
1981-0516.00071.0341981-04——false
1981-0617.00068.2781981-05——false
1981-0718.00060.5751981-06——false
1981-0819.00060.7371981-07——false
1981-0920.00065.7111981-08——false
1981-1021.00064.8241981-09——false
1981-1122.00061.2121981-10——false
1981-1223.00060.7261981-11——false
1982-0124.00056.8841981-12——false
Valuations and investment observations

No verified P/E. unavailable. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

No observations acquired.

No observations acquired.

Japan equities, 1989

Reference 1989-12. NIKKEI225 · monthly mean / revised. development-era illustration.

First exposed: Shareholders, including corporate cross-holders, banks, insurers and households.

Transmission: The wider land-and-equity bust left nonperforming property loans at banks and reduced lending capacity.

Public burden: Public capital, depositor protection and temporary bank nationalizations shifted some financial-system exposure onto the state. This is the broader Japanese asset/banking crisis, not Nikkei-only loss accounting.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 · Risk evidence 2 · Risk evidence 3 ·

Japan equities, 1989 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Dec 1987: 59.67Jan 1988: 59.79Feb 1988: 63.79Mar 1988: 67.49Apr 1988: 70.39May 1988: 71.97Jun 1988: 73.17Jul 1988: 72.61Aug 1988: 73.37Sep 1988: 72.36Oct 1988: 71.97Nov 1988: 75.38Dec 1988: 78.03Jan 1989: 81.71Feb 1989: 83.97Mar 1989: 83.84Apr 1989: 87.17May 1989: 89.17Jun 1989: 87.56Jul 1989: 88.79Aug 1989: 91.32Sep 1989: 90.91Oct 1989: 92.68Nov 1989: 94.55Dec 1989: 100.00Jan 1990: 98.14Feb 1990: 95.81Mar 1990: 84.76Apr 1990: 76.71May 1990: 83.50Jun 1990: 84.91Jul 1990: 84.40Aug 1990: 70.60Sep 1990: 62.80Oct 1990: 62.49Nov 1990: 61.57Dec 1990: 62.29Jan 1991: 61.19Feb 1991: 66.17Mar 1991: 69.42Apr 1991: 69.45May 1991: 67.82Jun 1991: 64.37Jul 1991: 60.94Aug 1991: 59.63Sep 1991: 60.45Oct 1991: 64.62Nov 1991: 62.43Dec 1991: 58.52-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
1987-12-24.00059.6661987-114.7900.000true
1988-01-23.00059.7881987-123.8580.000true
1988-02-22.00063.7871988-013.8340.000true
1988-03-21.00067.4911988-021.1060.000true
1988-04-20.00070.3881988-030.5230.000true
1988-05-19.00071.9701988-040.5330.000true
1988-06-18.00073.1711988-050.5550.000true
1988-07-17.00072.6141988-060.5660.000true
1988-08-16.00073.3661988-070.6240.000true
1988-09-15.00072.3631988-080.5340.000true
1988-10-14.00071.9671988-090.7320.000true
1988-11-13.00075.3761988-100.7880.000true
1988-12-12.00078.0261988-110.3760.000true
1989-01-11.00081.7101988-120.3720.000true
1989-02-10.00083.9691989-010.3510.000true
1989-03-9.00083.8391989-020.3620.000true
1989-04-8.00087.1731989-030.4030.000true
1989-05-7.00089.1751989-040.3680.000true
1989-06-6.00087.5601989-050.3770.000true
1989-07-5.00088.7921989-060.6050.000true
1989-08-4.00091.3241989-070.4270.000true
1989-09-3.00090.9061989-080.3790.000true
1989-10-2.00092.6751989-090.4260.000true
1989-11-1.00094.5521989-100.3620.000true
1989-120.000100.0001989-110.3640.000true
1990-011.00098.1361989-120.3470.000true
1990-022.00095.8091990-010.6000.000true
1990-033.00084.7581990-021.0190.000true
1990-044.00076.7071990-0312.7191.000true
1990-055.00083.5011990-04——false
1990-066.00084.9131990-0514.4600.000true
1990-077.00084.4031990-0612.1350.000true
1990-088.00070.5981990-0713.8241.000true
1990-099.00062.7981990-08——false
1990-1010.00062.4861990-09——false
1990-1111.00061.5711990-10——false
1990-1212.00062.2861990-11——false
1991-0113.00061.1861990-12——false
1991-0214.00066.1661991-01——false
1991-0315.00069.4161991-02——false
1991-0416.00069.4461991-0326.4330.000true
1991-0517.00067.8171991-0424.9121.000true
1991-0618.00064.3681991-05——false
1991-0719.00060.9381991-06——false
1991-0820.00059.6351991-0714.7730.000true
1991-0921.00060.4451991-0811.0810.000true
1991-1022.00064.6251991-096.7960.000true
1991-1123.00062.4311991-102.0260.000true
1991-1224.00058.5171991-114.3910.000true
Valuations and investment observations

NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firms. year-end; 1990 is August-end. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

dateoffsetpecape
1987-12-24.00050.400—
1988-12-12.00054.300—
1989-120.00053.700—
1990-088.00036.600—

No observations acquired.

Dot-com, 2000

Reference 2000-03. NASDAQCOM · monthly mean / revised. post-development asset-transfer illustration.

First exposed: Public shareholders and private venture investors.

Transmission: Mishkin distinguishes the tech-stock bust from credit-driven bubbles: it was not accompanied by marked bank-balance-sheet deterioration.

Public burden: Macroeconomic easing supported activity; this source does not establish a general reimbursement of dotcom equity losses.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 ·

Dot-com, 2000 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Mar 1998: 37.09Apr 1998: 38.57May 1998: 38.23Jun 1998: 37.39Jul 1998: 40.42Aug 1998: 37.16Sep 1998: 34.63Oct 1998: 33.64Nov 1998: 39.32Dec 1998: 43.12Jan 1999: 49.09Feb 1999: 49.07Mar 1999: 49.78Apr 1999: 52.84May 1999: 52.31Jun 1999: 52.49Jul 1999: 57.07Aug 1999: 55.02Sep 1999: 58.46Oct 1999: 58.62Nov 1999: 67.26Dec 1999: 77.87Jan 2000: 83.56Feb 2000: 91.84Mar 2000: 100.00Apr 2000: 80.44May 2000: 73.46Jun 2000: 80.48Jul 2000: 83.65Aug 2000: 81.40Sep 2000: 80.70Oct 2000: 69.41Nov 2000: 63.61Dec 2000: 55.34Jan 2001: 55.32Feb 2001: 51.00Mar 2001: 41.36Apr 2001: 40.27May 2001: 45.41Jun 2001: 43.97Jul 2001: 42.35Aug 2001: 40.18Sep 2001: 32.76Oct 2001: 34.49Nov 2001: 38.94Dec 2001: 41.18Jan 2002: 41.16Feb 2002: 37.47Mar 2002: 38.79-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
1998-03-24.00037.0871998-020.4810.000true
1998-04-23.00038.5661998-030.4530.000true
1998-05-22.00038.2341998-040.3910.000true
1998-06-21.00037.3881998-050.5270.000true
1998-07-20.00040.4241998-060.8930.000true
1998-08-19.00037.1591998-070.4270.000true
1998-09-18.00034.6331998-083.1730.000true
1998-10-17.00033.6391998-0911.1220.000true
1998-11-16.00039.3241998-1016.5430.000true
1998-12-15.00043.1201998-110.9390.000true
1999-01-14.00049.0901998-120.5650.000true
1999-02-13.00049.0731999-010.5060.000true
1999-03-12.00049.7841999-020.6620.000true
1999-04-11.00052.8401999-030.6580.000true
1999-05-10.00052.3131999-040.6070.000true
1999-06-9.00052.4871999-050.8180.000true
1999-07-8.00057.0741999-060.7250.000true
1999-08-7.00055.0171999-070.5640.000true
1999-09-6.00058.4621999-081.2180.000true
1999-10-5.00058.6151999-090.4260.000true
1999-11-4.00067.2611999-100.4380.000true
1999-12-3.00077.8661999-110.3520.000true
2000-01-2.00083.5621999-120.3520.000true
2000-02-1.00091.8362000-010.3960.000true
2000-030.000100.0002000-020.3490.000true
2000-041.00080.4422000-030.3290.000true
2000-052.00073.4632000-0432.4051.000true
2000-063.00080.4812000-05——false
2000-074.00083.6502000-0624.3060.000true
2000-085.00081.3992000-0716.2290.000true
2000-096.00080.6962000-0824.6110.000true
2000-107.00069.4112000-0928.0321.000true
2000-118.00063.6152000-10——false
2000-129.00055.3372000-11——false
2001-0110.00055.3172000-12——false
2001-0211.00051.0012001-01——false
2001-0312.00041.3632001-02——false
2001-0413.00040.2652001-03——false
2001-0514.00045.4122001-04——false
2001-0615.00043.9742001-05——false
2001-0716.00042.3482001-06——false
2001-0817.00040.1772001-07——false
2001-0918.00032.7572001-08——false
2001-1019.00034.4872001-09——false
2001-1120.00038.9352001-10——false
2001-1221.00041.1772001-11——false
2002-0122.00041.1572001-12——false
2002-0223.00037.4712002-0141.6061.000true
2002-0324.00038.7892002-0237.0390.000true
Valuations and investment observations

US broad market context; not Nasdaq P/E. monthly; source earnings interpolated. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

dateoffsetpecape
1998-03-24.00027.23436.297
1998-04-23.00028.26437.277
1998-05-22.00028.30536.957
1998-06-21.00028.44236.802
1998-07-20.00029.90438.260
1998-08-19.00027.99735.423
1998-09-18.00026.79533.532
1998-10-17.00027.19733.773
1998-11-16.00030.24737.369
1998-12-15.00031.55838.820
1999-01-14.00032.92040.577
1999-02-13.00032.67040.400
1999-03-12.00033.39441.356
1999-04-11.00033.99842.705
1999-05-10.00033.18642.557
1999-06-9.00032.24242.181
1999-07-8.00032.88143.828
1999-08-7.00030.88641.931
1999-09-6.00029.98641.323
1999-10-5.00028.65840.553
1999-11-4.00029.74343.208
1999-12-3.00029.65944.198
2000-01-2.00029.03643.773
2000-02-1.00027.76442.186
2000-030.00028.30643.221
2000-041.00028.50143.529
2000-052.00027.49241.966
2000-063.00028.15842.782
2000-074.00028.05042.758
2000-085.00027.97142.870
2000-096.00027.33841.898
2000-107.00026.49639.370
2000-118.00026.89738.782
2000-129.00026.61937.274
2001-0110.00027.55036.979
2001-0211.00027.80635.835
2001-0312.00026.09732.326
2001-0413.00027.95932.174
2001-0514.00032.02134.075
2001-0615.00033.67033.069
2001-0716.00035.46332.163
2001-0817.00037.84931.404
2001-0918.00036.90027.667
2001-1019.00039.72228.577
2001-1120.00043.62330.005
2001-1221.00046.37230.500
2002-0122.00046.17530.277
2002-0223.00044.56829.086
2002-0324.00046.71230.292
dateoffsetcompanyobservationLabelcapexOCFcapexRevenue
1998-06-30-21.000MSFTMSFT fiscal year ended 1998-06-309.5354.529
1998-12-26-15.000INTCINTC fiscal year ended 1998-12-2638.70113.539
1999-06-30-9.000MSFTMSFT fiscal year ended 1999-06-305.8132.952
1999-12-25-3.000INTCINTC fiscal year ended 1999-12-2530.02211.579
2000-06-303.000MSFTMSFT fiscal year ended 2000-06-306.2963.829
2000-12-309.000INTCINTC fiscal year ended 2000-12-3052.03119.789
2001-06-3015.000MSFTMSFT fiscal year ended 2001-06-308.2184.360
2001-12-2921.000INTCINTC fiscal year ended 2001-12-2984.45827.541

US housing, 2006

Reference 2006-07. CSUSHPINSA · monthly mean / revised. post-development asset-transfer illustration. Housing can decline slowly without crossing this rolling barrier; pre-launch index is a backfill.

First exposed: Homeowners lost equity; mortgage defaults passed losses to lenders and mortgage-security investors.

Transmission: Highly leveraged financial firms and securitized credit transmitted the shock beyond homeowners.

Public burden: Treasury put public funds at risk throughTARP. Its final net program cost was$31.1bn including interest, asof2023-09-30; this is NOT the total economic cost of the crisis or gross bank-loss subsidy.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 · Risk evidence 2 ·

US housing, 2006 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Jul 2004: 82.52Aug 2004: 83.32Sep 2004: 84.02Oct 2004: 84.67Nov 2004: 85.31Dec 2004: 85.95Jan 2005: 86.74Feb 2005: 87.71Mar 2005: 89.15Apr 2005: 90.46May 2005: 91.84Jun 2005: 93.18Jul 2005: 94.31Aug 2005: 95.30Sep 2005: 96.21Oct 2005: 96.83Nov 2005: 97.33Dec 2005: 97.56Jan 2006: 97.95Feb 2006: 98.32Mar 2006: 98.99Apr 2006: 99.48May 2006: 99.88Jun 2006: 99.97Jul 2006: 100.00Aug 2006: 99.89Sep 2006: 99.78Oct 2006: 99.70Nov 2006: 99.47Dec 2006: 99.25Jan 2007: 98.98Feb 2007: 98.84Mar 2007: 98.69Apr 2007: 98.66May 2007: 98.52Jun 2007: 98.34Jul 2007: 98.04Aug 2007: 97.63Sep 2007: 97.03Oct 2007: 96.17Nov 2007: 94.88Dec 2007: 93.89Jan 2008: 92.67Feb 2008: 91.65Mar 2008: 90.95Apr 2008: 90.63May 2008: 90.47Jun 2008: 90.21Jul 2008: 89.76-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
2004-07-24.00082.5202004-060.3400.000true
2004-08-23.00083.3202004-070.3410.000true
2004-09-22.00084.0212004-080.3420.000true
2004-10-21.00084.6652004-090.3430.000true
2004-11-20.00085.3142004-100.3420.000true
2004-12-19.00085.9502004-110.3410.000true
2005-01-18.00086.7412004-120.3400.000true
2005-02-17.00087.7132005-010.3380.000true
2005-03-16.00089.1502005-020.3370.000true
2005-04-15.00090.4632005-030.3340.000true
2005-05-14.00091.8422005-040.3350.000true
2005-06-13.00093.1802005-050.3350.000true
2005-07-12.00094.3082005-060.3350.000true
2005-08-11.00095.2962005-070.3360.000true
2005-09-10.00096.2112005-080.3370.000true
2005-10-9.00096.8292005-090.3370.000true
2005-11-8.00097.3292005-100.3390.000true
2005-12-7.00097.5632005-110.3420.000true
2006-01-6.00097.9532005-120.3480.000true
2006-02-5.00098.3162006-010.3500.000true
2006-03-4.00098.9942006-020.3540.000true
2006-04-3.00099.4812006-030.3540.000true
2006-05-2.00099.8772006-040.3570.000true
2006-06-1.00099.9672006-050.3590.000true
2006-070.000100.0002006-060.3630.000true
2006-081.00099.8902006-070.3670.000true
2006-092.00099.7782006-080.3790.000true
2006-103.00099.7002006-090.3900.000true
2006-114.00099.4712006-100.3990.000true
2006-125.00099.2532006-110.4210.000true
2007-016.00098.9762006-120.4420.000true
2007-027.00098.8412007-010.4710.000true
2007-038.00098.6912007-020.4840.000true
2007-049.00098.6572007-030.4980.000true
2007-0510.00098.5242007-040.5000.000true
2007-0611.00098.3382007-050.5120.000true
2007-0712.00098.0422007-060.5310.000true
2007-0813.00097.6312007-070.5530.000true
2007-0914.00097.0282007-080.5910.000true
2007-1015.00096.1662007-090.6630.000true
2007-1116.00094.8832007-100.7660.000true
2007-1217.00093.8952007-110.9750.000true
2008-0118.00092.6702007-121.1310.000true
2008-0219.00091.6482008-011.4280.000true
2008-0320.00090.9502008-021.7050.000true
2008-0421.00090.6342008-031.9360.000true
2008-0522.00090.4692008-041.9960.000true
2008-0623.00090.2082008-051.9880.000true
2008-0724.00089.7642008-061.9860.000true
Valuations and investment observations

No verified P/E. unavailable. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

No observations acquired.

No observations acquired.

China equities, 2007

Reference 2007-10. SPASTT01CNM661N · monthly mean / revised. post-development asset-transfer illustration.

First exposed: Investors holding Chinese equities bore the market-value decline.

Transmission: No case-specific split among retail, institutions and creditors was verified here.

Public burden: No quantified tax-funded loss allocation established in this dataset.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 · Risk evidence 2 ·

China equities, 2007 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Oct 2005: 19.70Nov 2005: 19.11Dec 2005: 19.52Jan 2006: 21.25Feb 2006: 22.21Mar 2006: 22.23Apr 2006: 23.84May 2006: 27.23Jun 2006: 27.93Jul 2006: 29.27Aug 2006: 27.88Sep 2006: 29.53Oct 2006: 30.93Nov 2006: 33.93Dec 2006: 40.01Jan 2007: 48.57Feb 2007: 49.57Mar 2007: 51.87Apr 2007: 61.35May 2007: 69.92Jun 2007: 69.60Jul 2007: 69.66Aug 2007: 84.11Sep 2007: 92.98Oct 2007: 100.00Nov 2007: 91.34Dec 2007: 88.10Jan 2008: 87.69Feb 2008: 77.84Mar 2008: 67.92Apr 2008: 58.97May 2008: 61.83Jun 2008: 52.24Jul 2008: 48.61Aug 2008: 43.30Sep 2008: 37.68Oct 2008: 34.36Nov 2008: 32.54Dec 2008: 33.84Jan 2009: 33.63Feb 2009: 38.25Mar 2009: 38.65Apr 2009: 42.67May 2009: 45.31Jun 2009: 49.10Jul 2009: 55.68Aug 2009: 53.35Sep 2009: 50.11Oct 2009: 51.11-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
2005-10-24.00019.6952005-098.0100.000true
2005-11-23.00019.1052005-1014.1570.000true
2005-12-22.00019.5222005-1114.2000.000true
2006-01-21.00021.2532005-126.5450.000true
2006-02-20.00022.2132006-011.2860.000true
2006-03-19.00022.2322006-020.6510.000true
2006-04-18.00023.8442006-030.6800.000true
2006-05-17.00027.2262006-040.5600.000true
2006-06-16.00027.9312006-050.4270.000true
2006-07-15.00029.2662006-060.4690.000true
2006-08-14.00027.8772006-070.3970.000true
2006-09-13.00029.5272006-081.3440.000true
2006-10-12.00030.9292006-090.4500.000true
2006-11-11.00033.9292006-100.3990.000true
2006-12-10.00040.0122006-110.3210.000true
2007-01-9.00048.5732006-120.2820.000true
2007-02-8.00049.5682007-010.2790.000true
2007-03-7.00051.8732007-020.3750.000true
2007-04-6.00061.3552007-030.3360.000true
2007-05-5.00069.9182007-040.2710.000true
2007-06-4.00069.6032007-050.2870.000true
2007-07-3.00069.6622007-060.4070.000true
2007-08-2.00084.1062007-070.4270.000true
2007-09-1.00092.9762007-080.2310.000true
2007-100.000100.0002007-090.2510.000true
2007-111.00091.3372007-100.2520.000true
2007-122.00088.0952007-112.4800.000true
2008-013.00087.6892007-125.1530.000true
2008-024.00077.8432008-015.8411.000true
2008-035.00067.9152008-02——false
2008-046.00058.9682008-03——false
2008-057.00061.8312008-04——false
2008-068.00052.2402008-05——false
2008-079.00048.6062008-06——false
2008-0810.00043.3042008-07——false
2008-0911.00037.6762008-08——false
2008-1012.00034.3582008-09——false
2008-1113.00032.5412008-10——false
2008-1214.00033.8402008-11——false
2009-0115.00033.6262008-12——false
2009-0216.00038.2512009-01——false
2009-0317.00038.6512009-02——false
2009-0418.00042.6702009-03——false
2009-0519.00045.3092009-04——false
2009-0620.00049.0962009-0515.2880.000true
2009-0721.00055.6792009-060.9620.000true
2009-0822.00053.3472009-070.7870.000true
2009-0923.00050.1132009-081.9550.000true
2009-1024.00051.1052009-094.9870.000true
Valuations and investment observations

Shanghai Stock Exchange total market. year-end. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

dateoffsetpecape
2005-12-22.00016.330—
2006-12-10.00033.300—
2007-122.00059.240—

No observations acquired.

China equities, 2015

Reference 2015-06. SPASTT01CNM661N · monthly mean / revised. post-development asset-transfer illustration.

First exposed: Equity investors, especially leveraged retail accounts forced to sell as they approached borrowing limits.

Transmission: Brokerage and shadow-financed margin systems transmitted forced selling. Small investors and large investors had different outcomes; aggregate loss is not uniform.

Public burden: Authorities supported markets; do not equate support commitments with realized taxpayer loss.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 · Risk evidence 2 ·

China equities, 2015 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Jun 2013: 44.59Jul 2013: 42.10Aug 2013: 43.35Sep 2013: 45.70Oct 2013: 45.66Nov 2013: 45.20Dec 2013: 45.23Jan 2014: 42.64Feb 2014: 43.48Mar 2014: 42.58Apr 2014: 43.35May 2014: 42.43Jun 2014: 42.71Jul 2014: 43.61Aug 2014: 46.38Sep 2014: 48.45Oct 2014: 49.27Nov 2014: 52.12Dec 2014: 62.60Jan 2015: 68.75Feb 2015: 66.93Mar 2015: 72.83Apr 2015: 87.21May 2015: 93.38Jun 2015: 100.00Jul 2015: 80.45Aug 2015: 75.13Sep 2015: 65.45Oct 2015: 68.50Nov 2015: 74.45Dec 2015: 74.13Jan 2016: 62.92Feb 2016: 58.40Mar 2016: 60.81Apr 2016: 62.83May 2016: 59.86Jun 2016: 60.66Jul 2016: 63.07Aug 2016: 63.76Sep 2016: 63.41Oct 2016: 64.11Nov 2016: 66.80Dec 2016: 65.97Jan 2017: 65.60Feb 2017: 67.03Mar 2017: 67.75Apr 2017: 67.19May 2017: 64.78Jun 2017: 65.76-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
2013-06-24.00044.5892013-051.7830.000true
2013-07-23.00042.0962013-065.6060.000true
2013-08-22.00043.3542013-0713.6740.000true
2013-09-21.00045.6982013-087.5380.000true
2013-10-20.00045.6592013-092.9370.000true
2013-11-19.00045.1962013-103.2630.000true
2013-12-18.00045.2262013-113.8470.000true
2014-01-17.00042.6382013-123.8240.000true
2014-02-16.00043.4792014-0111.3910.000true
2014-03-15.00042.5762014-023.8780.000true
2014-04-14.00043.3512014-034.3680.000true
2014-05-13.00042.4262014-042.8730.000true
2014-06-12.00042.7062014-052.5460.000true
2014-07-11.00043.6132014-061.9730.000true
2014-08-10.00046.3752014-071.1730.000true
2014-09-9.00048.4482014-080.4640.000true
2014-10-8.00049.2662014-090.4750.000true
2014-11-7.00052.1222014-100.4870.000true
2014-12-6.00062.6012014-110.4440.000true
2015-01-5.00068.7472014-120.4120.000true
2015-02-4.00066.9312015-010.3910.000true
2015-03-3.00072.8332015-020.8440.000true
2015-04-2.00087.2082015-030.3820.000true
2015-05-1.00093.3752015-040.3220.000true
2015-060.000100.0002015-050.3320.000true
2015-071.00080.4492015-060.3030.000true
2015-082.00075.1342015-0729.6911.000true
2015-093.00065.4532015-08——false
2015-104.00068.4992015-09——false
2015-115.00074.4482015-10——false
2015-126.00074.1312015-11——false
2016-017.00062.9212015-12——false
2016-028.00058.4042016-01——false
2016-039.00060.8052016-02——false
2016-0410.00062.8262016-03——false
2016-0511.00059.8612016-04——false
2016-0612.00060.6612016-05——false
2016-0713.00063.0692016-06——false
2016-0814.00063.7612016-0719.6710.000true
2016-0915.00063.4142016-0814.3950.000true
2016-1016.00064.1092016-0912.8490.000true
2016-1117.00066.8032016-1010.8590.000true
2016-1218.00065.9742016-115.0360.000true
2017-0119.00065.6002016-121.0700.000true
2017-0220.00067.0272017-010.7730.000true
2017-0321.00067.7472017-020.4300.000true
2017-0422.00067.1932017-030.4410.000true
2017-0523.00064.7762017-040.5480.000true
2017-0624.00065.7632017-051.0970.000true
Valuations and investment observations

Shanghai Stock Exchange total market. year-end. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

dateoffsetpecape
2013-12-18.00010.990—
2014-12-6.00015.990—
2015-126.00017.630—

No observations acquired.

Bitcoin, 2017

Reference 2017-12. BTC · monthly mean / revised. post-development asset-transfer illustration.

First exposed: Long Bitcoin holders; pessimistic futures traders could gain as prices fell.

Transmission: Investor entry timing and position direction determine losses. No complete2017creditor or customer allocation verified.

Public burden: No public loss allocation established here.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 ·

Bitcoin, 2017 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Dec 2015: 2.79Jan 2016: 2.71Feb 2016: 2.65Mar 2016: 2.73Apr 2016: 2.87May 2016: 3.05Jun 2016: 4.23Jul 2016: 4.36Aug 2016: 3.81Sep 2016: 3.99Oct 2016: 4.23Nov 2016: 4.77Dec 2016: 5.43Jan 2017: 6.01Feb 2017: 7.02Mar 2017: 7.43Apr 2017: 8.03May 2017: 12.42Jun 2017: 17.22Jul 2017: 16.51Aug 2017: 25.50Sep 2017: 27.00Oct 2017: 35.20Nov 2017: 51.21Dec 2017: 100.00Jan 2018: 84.84Feb 2018: 61.84Mar 2018: 59.18Apr 2018: 52.77May 2018: 55.44Jun 2018: 44.55Jul 2018: 46.85Aug 2018: 43.95Sep 2018: 43.37Oct 2018: 42.22Nov 2018: 35.18Dec 2018: 24.13Jan 2019: 24.08Feb 2019: 24.08Mar 2019: 25.82Apr 2019: 33.87May 2019: 48.00Jun 2019: 61.82Jul 2019: 70.16Aug 2019: 69.95Sep 2019: 64.45Oct 2019: 55.20Nov 2019: 54.89Dec 2019: 47.69-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
2015-12-24.0002.7932015-111.5630.000true
2016-01-23.0002.7052015-121.5040.000true
2016-02-22.0002.6552016-012.0080.000true
2016-03-21.0002.7302016-022.5940.000true
2016-04-20.0002.8662016-031.5440.000true
2016-05-19.0003.0472016-040.7160.000true
2016-06-18.0004.2332016-050.6600.000true
2016-07-17.0004.3612016-060.4210.000true
2016-08-16.0003.8122016-070.7340.000true
2016-09-15.0003.9902016-0810.4600.000true
2016-10-14.0004.2302016-093.2150.000true
2016-11-13.0004.7742016-101.1730.000true
2016-12-12.0005.4322016-110.5860.000true
2017-01-11.0006.0082016-120.5790.000true
2017-02-10.0007.0202017-010.5160.000true
2017-03-9.0007.4312017-020.3990.000true
2017-04-8.0008.0302017-030.4460.000true
2017-05-7.00012.4242017-040.4180.000true
2017-06-6.00017.2192017-050.2690.000true
2017-07-5.00016.5142017-060.3170.000true
2017-08-4.00025.5012017-071.3770.000true
2017-09-3.00027.0002017-080.1900.000true
2017-10-2.00035.2002017-090.3290.000true
2017-11-1.00051.2112017-100.1960.000true
2017-120.000100.0002017-110.1450.000true
2018-011.00084.8432017-120.0950.000true
2018-022.00061.8442018-0110.1531.000true
2018-033.00059.1812018-02——false
2018-044.00052.7712018-03——false
2018-055.00055.4382018-04——false
2018-066.00044.5522018-05——false
2018-077.00046.8522018-06——false
2018-088.00043.9492018-07——false
2018-099.00043.3732018-08——false
2018-1010.00042.2212018-09——false
2018-1111.00035.1832018-10——false
2018-1212.00024.1262018-11——false
2019-0113.00024.0832018-12——false
2019-0214.00024.0832019-01——false
2019-0315.00025.8222019-02——false
2019-0416.00033.8672019-03——false
2019-0517.00047.9982019-04——false
2019-0618.00061.8202019-052.3470.000true
2019-0719.00070.1562019-061.7890.000true
2019-0820.00069.9532019-072.0570.000true
2019-0921.00064.4492019-082.4340.000true
2019-1022.00055.2002019-0912.4221.000true
2019-1123.00054.8882019-10——false
2019-1224.00047.6912019-11——false
Valuations and investment observations

No verified P/E. unavailable. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

No observations acquired.

No observations acquired.

Bitcoin, 2021

Reference 2021-11. BTC · monthly mean / revised. post-development asset-transfer illustration.

First exposed: Bitcoin holders; BIS estimates most crypto-app users in its2015–22sample lost on Bitcoin.

Transmission: The2022crypto shock also exposed exchange/lending customers; price losses and platform failures are separate channels.

Public burden: BIS found limited discernible spillovers outside crypto in these shocks. This is not a claim of zero external risk.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 ·

Bitcoin, 2021 normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Nov 2019: 13.74Dec 2019: 11.94Jan 2020: 13.79Feb 2020: 15.90Mar 2020: 11.35Apr 2020: 11.90May 2020: 15.27Jun 2020: 15.62Jul 2020: 15.82Aug 2020: 19.19Sep 2020: 17.55Oct 2020: 19.60Nov 2020: 27.47Dec 2020: 36.25Jan 2021: 57.27Feb 2021: 76.32Mar 2021: 90.52Apr 2021: 94.10May 2021: 76.64Jun 2021: 59.01Jul 2021: 56.71Aug 2021: 75.38Sep 2021: 75.68Oct 2021: 95.44Nov 2021: 100.00Dec 2021: 81.33Jan 2022: 67.75Feb 2022: 67.16Mar 2022: 69.17Apr 2022: 68.29May 2022: 52.25Jun 2022: 40.13Jul 2022: 35.50Aug 2022: 36.85Sep 2022: 32.62Oct 2022: 32.38Nov 2022: 28.97Dec 2022: 27.91Jan 2023: 33.35Feb 2023: 38.40Mar 2023: 41.40Apr 2023: 47.55May 2023: 45.34Jun 2023: 45.75Jul 2023: 49.52Aug 2023: 45.89Sep 2023: 43.35Oct 2023: 49.02Nov 2023: 60.32-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
2019-11-24.00013.7432019-10——false
2019-12-23.00011.9412019-11——false
2020-01-22.00013.7862019-12——false
2020-02-21.00015.8962020-01——false
2020-03-20.00011.3462020-024.6891.000true
2020-04-19.00011.9052020-03——false
2020-05-18.00015.2672020-04——false
2020-06-17.00015.6202020-0516.3610.000true
2020-07-16.00015.8152020-0616.2220.000true
2020-08-15.00019.1952020-0713.7110.000true
2020-09-14.00017.5452020-081.6900.000true
2020-10-13.00019.6022020-0912.4170.000true
2020-11-12.00027.4712020-101.4140.000true
2020-12-11.00036.2462020-110.9380.000true
2021-01-10.00057.2682020-120.6830.000true
2021-02-9.00076.3232021-010.5340.000true
2021-03-8.00090.5232021-020.6420.000true
2021-04-7.00094.1022021-030.2460.000true
2021-05-6.00076.6382021-040.3050.000true
2021-06-5.00059.0132021-0526.2511.000true
2021-07-4.00056.7072021-06——false
2021-08-3.00075.3852021-07——false
2021-09-2.00075.6822021-0829.8610.000true
2021-10-1.00095.4372021-0934.3350.000true
2021-110.000100.0002021-100.7510.000true
2021-121.00081.3342021-111.1800.000true
2022-012.00067.7492021-1253.8941.000true
2022-023.00067.1612022-01——false
2022-034.00069.1672022-02——false
2022-045.00068.2902022-03——false
2022-056.00052.2492022-04——false
2022-067.00040.1302022-05——false
2022-078.00035.5042022-06——false
2022-089.00036.8502022-07——false
2022-0910.00032.6162022-08——false
2022-1011.00032.3772022-09——false
2022-1112.00028.9692022-10——false
2022-1213.00027.9102022-11——false
2023-0114.00033.3532022-12——false
2023-0215.00038.4012023-01——false
2023-0316.00041.4002023-02——false
2023-0417.00047.5502023-03——false
2023-0518.00045.3432023-0412.0950.000true
2023-0619.00045.7462023-054.8590.000true
2023-0720.00049.5192023-062.2220.000true
2023-0821.00045.8852023-070.7380.000true
2023-0922.00043.3492023-084.3750.000true
2023-1023.00049.0222023-099.4810.000true
2023-1124.00060.3202023-100.7870.000true
Valuations and investment observations

No verified P/E. unavailable. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

No observations acquired.

No observations acquired.

AI market context

Reference 2026-08. Nasdaq month-end close. uncalibrated Nasdaq transfer.

First exposed: Scenario: public hyperscaler/supplier shareholders and private lab investors first face reduced equity value or dilution.

Transmission: Scenario: creditors and equipment/data-center lessors face default or stranded-capacity exposure; compute providers face customer-concentration and contracted-capacity risk.

Public burden: No observed AI crash or public rescue is assumed. Customer and taxpayer burden depends on contracts and future policy, so leave unquantified.

Price / historical source · Risk evidence 1 · Risk evidence 2 · Risk evidence 3 · Risk evidence 4 ·

AI market context normalized pricesmonthly observations; vertical line marks the reference month. Hover a point for its date and value. Data tables are in the appendix.0150Aug 2024: 67.17Sep 2024: 68.97Oct 2024: 68.62Nov 2024: 72.88Dec 2024: 73.23Jan 2025: 74.43Feb 2025: 71.47Mar 2025: 65.60Apr 2025: 66.16May 2025: 72.48Jun 2025: 77.24Jul 2025: 80.10Aug 2025: 81.36Sep 2025: 85.93Oct 2025: 89.97Nov 2025: 88.60Dec 2025: 88.14Jan 2026: 88.97Feb 2026: 85.96Mar 2026: 81.87Apr 2026: 94.39May 2026: 102.28Jun 2026: 99.40Jul 2026: 96.22Aug 2026: 100.00-24-120+12+24
Monthly chart data and reconstructed forecasts
monthfrom referenceprice reference 100forecast madeforecast pctobserved crossingeligible
2024-08-24.00067.1712024-070.6420.000true
2024-09-23.00068.9742024-080.5330.000true
2024-10-22.00068.6182024-090.4320.000true
2024-11-21.00072.8762024-100.4780.000true
2024-12-20.00073.2282024-110.3830.000true
2025-01-19.00074.4282024-120.4330.000true
2025-02-18.00071.4702025-010.4220.000true
2025-03-17.00065.6002025-021.1120.000true
2025-04-16.00066.1582025-036.4230.000true
2025-05-15.00072.4812025-044.5280.000true
2025-06-14.00077.2432025-050.8100.000true
2025-07-13.00080.0982025-060.5100.000true
2025-08-12.00081.3612025-070.5100.000true
2025-09-11.00085.9282025-080.5220.000true
2025-10-10.00089.9662025-090.4860.000true
2025-11-9.00088.6042025-100.4690.000true
2025-12-8.00088.1352025-110.7360.000true
2026-01-7.00088.9692025-120.8120.000true
2026-02-6.00085.9592026-010.6690.000true
2026-03-5.00081.8732026-021.3420.000true
2026-04-4.00094.3932026-032.9290.000true
2026-05-3.000102.2822026-040.4010.000true
2026-06-2.00099.4042026-050.4390.000true
2026-07-1.00096.2192026-060.9840.000true
2026-080.000100.0002026-071.9550.000true
Valuations and investment observations

US broad market context; not AI-specific. monthly; source earnings interpolated. Shiller earnings are interpolated in the source. Fiscal investment series are selected survivor firms and not the full dot-com or telecom sector.

dateoffsetpecape
2024-08-24.00027.51534.920
2024-09-23.00028.06835.660
2024-10-22.00028.45436.587
2024-11-21.00028.66537.350
2024-12-20.00028.60037.711
2025-01-19.00028.16037.129
2025-02-18.00028.15037.187
2025-03-17.00026.23134.785
2025-04-16.00024.55932.621
2025-05-15.00026.34335.077
2025-06-14.00027.09736.111
2025-07-13.00027.76637.474
2025-08-12.00027.74337.846
2025-09-11.00027.98738.580
2025-10-10.00028.41539.206
2025-11-9.00028.22439.150
2025-12-8.00028.47939.582
2026-01-7.00027.97839.641
2026-02-6.00027.06739.014
2026-03-5.00025.42537.032
2026-04-4.00025.48938.138
2026-05-3.00026.08540.101
2026-06-2.00025.22140.150
2026-07-1.000—40.009
2026-080.000—41.120

No observations acquired.

Source ledger & downloads

Download chart data, formula, validation and provenance (JSON) · Latest dated Nasdaq model estimate (JSON) · Previous exuberance benchmark (JSON) · SEC accounts export

Railroad sources: Macaulay (1938), NBER Macrohistory series 11005 and 13019. Nasdaq: FRED NASDAQCOM. Industry portfolios: Kenneth French Data Library. US P/E and CAPE: Robert Shiller data. Japanese P/E: French & Poterba, Table 4; 1989 reported P/E 53.7 versus accounting-adjusted 32.6. SSE observations are annual endpoints, including December 2015 after the crash.

Annual P/E sources and accounting definitions
casedatepeproxynotesource
japan19891970-129.000NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891971-1213.500NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891972-1223.300NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891973-1213.900NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891974-1216.500NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891975-1225.200NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891976-1222.000NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891977-1219.300NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891978-1221.500NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891979-1216.600NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891980-1217.900NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891981-1224.900NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891982-1223.700NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891983-1229.400NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891984-1226.300NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891985-1229.400NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891986-1258.600NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891987-1250.400NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891988-1254.300NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891989-1253.700NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
japan19891990-0836.600NRI 350 Japanese nonfinancial firmsNot Nikkei225. Unconsolidated Japanese earnings; not accounting-harmonized US PE. Paper estimates1989adjustedPE32.6 vs reported53.7.https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publications/1-s2.0-0304405X91900066-main.pdf
china20072005-1216.330Shanghai Stock Exchange total marketDifferent universe from OECD China price proxy. Year-end observation is NOT crash-peak PE; do not interpolate to monthly. 2015total includesA+B; A-share-onlyPE17.61.https://www.sse.com.cn/aboutus/publication/yearly/documents/c/10061086/files/c6db3f91030b4533ad5bd85cb421b18e.pdf
china20072006-1233.300Shanghai Stock Exchange total marketDifferent universe from OECD China price proxy. Year-end observation is NOT crash-peak PE; do not interpolate to monthly. 2015total includesA+B; A-share-onlyPE17.61.https://www.sse.com.cn/aboutus/publication/yearly/documents/c/10061086/files/c6db3f91030b4533ad5bd85cb421b18e.pdf
china20072007-1259.240Shanghai Stock Exchange total marketDifferent universe from OECD China price proxy. Year-end observation is NOT crash-peak PE; do not interpolate to monthly. 2015total includesA+B; A-share-onlyPE17.61.https://www.sse.com.cn/aboutus/publication/yearly/documents/c/10061086/files/c6db3f91030b4533ad5bd85cb421b18e.pdf
china20152013-1210.990Shanghai Stock Exchange total marketDifferent universe from OECD China price proxy. Year-end observation is NOT crash-peak PE; do not interpolate to monthly. 2015total includesA+B; A-share-onlyPE17.61.https://star.sse.com.cn/aboutus/publication/yearly/documents/c/10061078/files/08c138fe02fa460aa1c217eaf20b2b69.pdf
china20152014-1215.990Shanghai Stock Exchange total marketDifferent universe from OECD China price proxy. Year-end observation is NOT crash-peak PE; do not interpolate to monthly. 2015total includesA+B; A-share-onlyPE17.61.https://star.sse.com.cn/aboutus/publication/yearly/documents/c/10061078/files/08c138fe02fa460aa1c217eaf20b2b69.pdf
china20152015-1217.630Shanghai Stock Exchange total marketDifferent universe from OECD China price proxy. Year-end observation is NOT crash-peak PE; do not interpolate to monthly. 2015total includesA+B; A-share-onlyPE17.61.https://star.sse.com.cn/aboutus/publication/yearly/documents/c/10061078/files/08c138fe02fa460aa1c217eaf20b2b69.pdf
Capex, cash-flow and revenue source accounts

MSFT · 1996-06-30

Capex / OCF 13.28% · Capex / revenue 5.70%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

Income Statements, fiscal-year columns

Cash Flows Statements, fiscal-year columns

INTC · 1996-12-28

Capex / OCF 34.59% · Capex / revenue 14.51%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

PDF page 16, Consolidated Statements of Income

PDF page 18, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

MSFT · 1997-06-30

Capex / OCF 10.64% · Capex / revenue 4.39%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

Income Statements, fiscal-year columns

Cash Flows Statements, fiscal-year columns

INTC · 1997-12-27

Capex / OCF 44.97% · Capex / revenue 17.95%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

PDF page 16, Consolidated Statements of Income

PDF page 18, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

MSFT · 1998-06-30

Capex / OCF 9.53% · Capex / revenue 4.53%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

Income Statements, fiscal-year columns

Cash Flows Statements, fiscal-year columns

INTC · 1998-12-26

Capex / OCF 38.70% · Capex / revenue 13.54%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

PDF page 16, Consolidated Statements of Income

PDF page 18, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

MSFT · 1999-06-30

Capex / OCF 5.81% · Capex / revenue 2.95%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

Income Statements, fiscal-year columns

Cash Flows Statements, fiscal-year columns

INTC · 1999-12-25

Capex / OCF 30.02% · Capex / revenue 11.58%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

PDF page 16, Consolidated Statements of Income

PDF page 18, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

MSFT · 2000-06-30

Capex / OCF 6.30% · Capex / revenue 3.83%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

Income Statements, fiscal-year columns

Cash Flows Statements, fiscal-year columns

INTC · 2000-12-30

Capex / OCF 52.03% · Capex / revenue 19.79%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

PDF page 20, Consolidated Statements of Income

PDF page 22, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

MSFT · 2001-06-30

Capex / OCF 8.22% · Capex / revenue 4.36%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

Income Statements, fiscal-year columns

Cash Flows Statements, fiscal-year columns

INTC · 2001-12-29

Capex / OCF 84.46% · Capex / revenue 27.54%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

PDF page 22, Consolidated Statements of Income

PDF page 24, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

MSFT · 2002-06-30

Capex / OCF 5.31% · Capex / revenue 2.71%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

Income Statements, fiscal-year columns

Cash Flows Statements, fiscal-year columns

INTC · 2002-12-28

Capex / OCF 51.52% · Capex / revenue 17.57%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

PDF page 53, Consolidated Statements of Income

PDF page 55, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

MSFT · 2003-06-30

Capex / OCF 5.64% · Capex / revenue 2.77%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

Item 8, Income Statements and Cash Flows Statements, fiscal-year columns

INTC · 2003-12-27

Capex / OCF 31.75% · Capex / revenue 12.13%. MSFT + INTC survivor sample; not all dotcom firms or telecom buildout. Publication date unverified.

PDF page 58, Consolidated Statements of Income

PDF page 60, Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

Microsoft · 2026-06-30

Capex / OCF 63.38% · Capex / revenue 34.94%. Company-wide operations, not AI-specific. Cash capex excludes noncash leases. Different fiscal endpoints.

Company filing

Alphabet · 2026-06-30

Capex / OCF 71.31% · Capex / revenue 29.70%. Company-wide operations, not AI-specific. Cash capex excludes noncash leases. Different fiscal endpoints.

Company filing

Meta · 2026-06-30

Capex / OCF 68.55% · Capex / revenue 39.14%. Company-wide operations, not AI-specific. Cash capex excludes noncash leases. Different fiscal endpoints.

Company filing

Amazon · 2026-06-30

Capex / OCF 107.20% · Capex / revenue 22.31%. Company-wide operations, not AI-specific. Cash capex excludes noncash leases. Different fiscal endpoints.

Company filing

Oracle · 2026-05-31

Capex / OCF 174.07% · Capex / revenue 82.64%. Company-wide operations, not AI-specific. Cash capex excludes noncash leases. Different fiscal endpoints.

Company filing

Private labs: financing snapshots

OpenAI · 2026-03-31: 35.5x revenue pace; not EV/revenue or audited annual sales. Uses same-date primary disclosure, not newer media estimate.

Anthropic · 2026-05-28: Less than 20.532x because revenue run rate exceeds $47bn. Not P/E, EV/revenue, or annual GAAP sales. Same-date primary disclosure, not newer media estimate.

These are private equity valuation / annualized revenue pace, not public P/E, enterprise value / revenue, or audited annual sales. No numeric loss allocation or probability effect is inferred from them.

Full company, macro and original-model evidence

The earlier detailed dashboard is preserved below, including individual company accounts, OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX/xAI, Nvidia, interest rates, energy assumptions and the retired hand-weighted score. The compact dashboard above uses distinct measures, not that retired aggregate score.

Demand, financing and the payback question

Evidence reviewed September 7, 2026. These are dated editorial observations, not a live revenue feed.

What customers pay

Epoch AI, August 27, 2026 reports OpenAI above $40B annualized revenue and Anthropic around $65B by the end of July. Run rates extrapolate recent sales; they are not earned full-year revenue, recurring subscription ARR or profit. Partner-channel accounting differs: Anthropic books gross customer charges while OpenAI books its net share. The roughly $105B sum is therefore not a comparable, deduplicated market total. We show the firms separately.

Exponential View, June 25, 2026 estimates $110B trailing-year end-customer sales and more than $175B annualized across generative AI. Its model removes transactions within the supply chain; it excludes internal business uplift, efficiency savings, professional services and China. This is an analyst estimate, not audited sector accounts.

Growth is evidence; margins decide returns

Epoch’s argument is that unusually persistent revenue growth is evidence of useful demand. The question is whether new capabilities sustain growth or adoption saturates. Exponential View compares attributable revenue with depreciation using six-year compute and fourteen-year other-infrastructure lives. Clearing depreciation alone does not cover operating costs, financing costs or required investor returns. Neither argument establishes fair value.

The counterargument: expectations and financing

IMF, October 2025 warned that stretched valuations and concentrated exposure could amplify corrections if earnings disappoint. BIS, January 2026 emphasized the shift from internal cash toward debt financing. Together these challenge the inference that rapid sales growth alone makes the buildout safe: compare durable cash margins, debt service and funding terms with the revenue trajectory. These are analytical warnings, not calibrated crash forecasts.

Financing changes who bears the downside

Nvidia, August 10, 2026: memorandums with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR target over $500B of third-party infrastructure capital over time, subject to final agreements. This is not $500B of Nvidia sales, deployed capital or a single funded bank loan. Watch actual underwriting, guarantees, utilization and collateral values.

Alphabet Q2 2026 filing: $49.6B net proceeds from common and mandatory convertible preferred stock issued in June; separately, a $40B at-the-market program had sold no shares at June 30 and was primarily intended for employee-equity tax obligations. The earlier $80B proposal and these subsequent proceeds must not be added together. Issuance brings cash and can dilute shareholders; it is not customer revenue.

What the payback illustration measures

Simple undiscounted recovery time = acquisition price / annual distributable cash, or price-to-sales multiple / cash margin. It assumes constant revenue and margin, with reinvestment included in the margin. It excludes growth, discounting and residual value and is not a valuation model. We do not divide global hyperscaler capex by lab revenue: the entities, assets, timing and revenue boundaries do not match.

Historical lesson: railway and dot-com infrastructure could gain users while investors lost money. Compare demand growth with margins, reinvestment and financing obligations—not demand growth alone. Comparable historical customer-revenue and capital cohorts remain a research gap.

Dot-com cash flows: what happened when spending outran growth?

Microsoft + Intel, fiscal 1996–2003. Two surviving companies, not the dot-com sector or failed telecom builders. Each bar is capital spending per operating-cash dollar.

Common scale: 0–100¢ per $1 of operating cash. Click a fiscal year for the actual accounts. The chart does not align observations to a retrospectively selected stock-market peak.

FY2000: $7.6B capital spending / $26.8B operating cash
$56.7B revenue. Year-over-year changes: spending 89%, operating cash 25%, revenue 15%.

Fiscal endpoints: Microsoft 2000-06-30; Intel 2000-12-30. Annual windows differ and include information reported after the market peak. Company accounts & provenance ↗

The stress in 2001: spending still rose 11%, while operating cash fell 18% and revenue fell 9%. More of each cash dollar went into investment.

Today’s five builders: 83¢ per $1 cash; spending changed 84%, operating cash 37%, revenue 19%.

What transfers: falling cash generation alongside committed spending can squeeze funding. The different company mix and infrastructure intensity prevent treating 38¢ then as a crash threshold for 82¢ today.

British railways: revenue relative to construction cost, 1844–1851

Annual gross revenue per £100 of accumulated construction cost. A matched historical industry measure—not profit, P/E or annual capex coverage.

1844£9.2
1845£9.9
1846£10.4
1847£9.1
1848£7.5
1849£6.0
1850£5.9
1851£6.3

Common bar scale: £0–£12 annual revenue per £100 construction cost. Annual observations; no interpolated months.

Revenue intensity fell from £9.9 in 1845 to £5.9 in 1850, while route mileage expanded. Growing infrastructure and disappointing financial returns can coexist. AI needs its own matched asset-cost and revenue data before this ratio can be compared numerically.

Inputs and source
YearMilesConstruction £/mileAnnual revenue £/mile
18442240357003280
18452536350003470
18463142318003300
18473945317002870
18485127342002560
18495996352002100
18506621352002080
18516890351002220

Odlyzko (2011), Table 1, page 8 ↗, compiled from Tooke/Newmarch (1857). Historical estimates vary by source. This British case is separate from US railroads in 1873; old and new lines are pooled.

US housing: prices relative to rents, 2000–2012

At the 2006 peak, home prices were 34% higher relative to rents than in early 2000. This measures the price of housing against its rental-service counterpart, rather than showing prices alone.

801001201401602000 Q12012 Q42006-Q1: 133.9 price-to-rent index
Since 2000 Q1: home prices 60.2%; rents 19.7%. Their ratio changed 33.9%.

100 means the price/rent relationship in 2000 Q1, not fair value or 100 years’ rent. Quarterly source observations; no monthly interpolation. The workbook maximum is Q1 2006; the article’s event-window reference is Q3 2006. Neither defines the onset of the later financial crisis.

AI parallel: compare asset prices with the cash-generating activity behind them. Earnings or rents may catch up, or prices may fall; a stretched ratio alone does not tell us which, or when.

Dallas Fed, February 2025 ↗ · Published chart workbook ↗. Historical vintage, retrieved September 7, 2026. Rebased from the publisher’s house and rent indexes; ratio reconciled against its separately published ratio sheet. Not an individual-property rental yield.

Historical cash accounts and comparison limits

Annual fiscal accounts, two-company survivor sample. Fiscal labels do not synchronize calendar windows. Figures are retrospective reconstructions, not a point-in-time prediction test. Pooled ratio is total cash capex divided by total operating cash, never an average of company ratios.

Company / fiscal endCapexOperating cashRevenueSource
MSFT · 1996-06-30$0.5B$3.7B$8.7BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
INTC · 1996-12-28$3.0B$8.7B$20.8BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
MSFT · 1997-06-30$0.5B$4.7B$11.4BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
INTC · 1997-12-27$4.5B$10.0B$25.1BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
MSFT · 1998-06-30$0.7B$6.9B$14.5BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
INTC · 1998-12-26$3.6B$9.2B$26.3BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
MSFT · 1999-06-30$0.6B$10.0B$19.7BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
INTC · 1999-12-25$3.4B$11.3B$29.4BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
MSFT · 2000-06-30$0.9B$14.0B$23.0BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
INTC · 2000-12-30$6.7B$12.8B$33.7BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
MSFT · 2001-06-30$1.1B$13.4B$25.3BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
INTC · 2001-12-29$7.3B$8.7B$26.5BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
MSFT · 2002-06-30$0.8B$14.5B$28.4BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
INTC · 2002-12-28$4.7B$9.1B$26.8BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗
MSFT · 2003-06-30$0.9B$15.8B$32.2BIncome ↗
INTC · 2003-12-27$3.7B$11.5B$30.1BIncome ↗ Cash flows ↗

These companies omit bankruptcies and many capital-intensive telecom firms. The comparison illustrates cash pressure, not historical crash detection accuracy. Revenue and operating cash have different accounting meanings; neither is a direct measure of customer economic benefit.

Valuation and supply evidence

Supplier sales confirm the buildout is happening. They do not prove the eventual AI customer earns a return. Do not add these sales to lab or cloud revenue.

TSMC · making the chips

$40.2B quarterly sales, up 33.7% in USD year over year (Q2 2026). Advanced nodes made up 77% of wafer revenue.

Recognized foundry sales across AI and non-AI applications. Watch whether capacity and customer orders keep pace with downstream usage.

Quarterly report ↗

ASML · making the tools

€9.3B quarterly sales (Q2 2026). Management plans roughly 30% more low-NA EUV and immersion DUV capacity in 2027.

Sales are observed; capacity is a plan. More equipment capacity can ease bottlenecks while increasing overcapacity risk.

Results & capacity plan ↗

Micron · memory

$13.8B cloud-memory sales, versus $3.4B a year earlier (fiscal Q3, ended May 2026).

Broader than AI or high-bandwidth memory. Price increases and product mix can drive revenue; this is not a measure of physical demand alone.

Quarterly results ↗

How the P/E observations were checked

Stock Analysis snapshots use September 4 regular-session closes and provider trailing EPS. Seven displayed ratios reconcile within rounding. This is an arithmetic check, not a GAAP earnings audit. Forward P/E is omitted because its precise forecast horizon and accounting basis have not been verified.

TSMC and ASML multiples are excluded: their displayed price divided by EPS differs from quoted P/E. ADR, currency or provider conventions may matter; the cause is not established. A missing multiple is not zero or evidence of cheapness.

What makes this moment interesting?

Share prices and earnings can both rise rapidly, leaving a moderate-looking trailing multiple. One year of unusually high earnings can also make a cyclical stock look inexpensive. Examine sustainable operating earnings and reinvestment alongside the multiple. An AI-only P/E requires separately valued AI operations and attributable earnings; those inputs are not available for this cohort.

GDP scale calculation

Global builder trailing cash capex / Q2 2026 US nominal GDP at a seasonally adjusted annual rate. The dated denominator is $32,486.066B, released August 26. Geography, fiscal windows and value-added boundaries differ. It must not be called AI’s GDP share or growth contribution.

Paid access is growing; profitability is still a separate question

Microsoft 365 Copilot

15M → >30M paid seats

January to July 2026 earnings-call disclosures. Licensed seats, not active users; no comparable absolute 2025 baseline verified.

January call ↗ · July call ↗

Google processed tokens

>480T → >3.2 quadrillion / month

May 2025 to May 2026 disclosures. Mixed paid, free and internal workloads; changing token mix prevents a constant-quality demand comparison.

2025 disclosure ↗ · 2026 disclosure ↗

Company-reported, irregular snapshots reviewed September 7, 2026. Do not sum overlapping populations or multiply seats/tokens by list prices to infer revenue. These measures do not establish retention, cash margins, paid GPU occupancy or infrastructure payback. Falling usage per paid seat or weaker renewals would weaken the demand thesis; sustained paid expansion with better margins would strengthen it.

AI BUBBLE MONITOR

FOLLOW THE MONEY. WATCH THE GAP.

A reality check on the AI boom.

Capital is moving fast. Are the returns keeping up?

SEC feeds connected · research dated separatelyChecked Oct 14, 2026

A NEW MODEL / TESTED BEFORE INTERPRETATION

Price exuberance, with its track record attached.

The original 65 measured spending pressure. This diagnostic asks a different question: are public-market prices following an unusually explosive path?

EXPERIMENTAL · NOT A CRASH PROBABILITY
PRICE-EXUBERANCE PERCENTILERESEARCH V1
81.7/ 100

No persistent warning in the aggregate proxy.

Reference rank under an additive random-walk null. A value of 81.7 is not an 81.7% chance of a bubble or crash.

Monthly data through Jul 2026120-month sensitivity: 91.1

Frozen warning rule: percentile ≥95 for three consecutive months. Neither aggregate specification triggers now. This does not establish that AI assets are fairly valued.

AI-exposed industry basketMONTHLY · REFERENCE PERCENTILE

Equal-weight, monthly-rebalanced French industry portfolios: electronic equipment, computers, and software. Total returns, including dividends; not an investable pure-AI index. This is not a direct price series for OpenAI, Anthropic, or SpaceX/xAI; AI exposure has not been verified constituent by constituent.

Source and portfolio definitions ↗
7/10Historical episodes detected
3/10Historical episodes missed
2/10Contrast windows with an alert

Not yet a low-error bubble detector. Ten selected episodes are a small, partly dependent sample. Contrast periods are not certified non-bubbles. These counts cannot calibrate crash probabilities.

FUNDAMENTALS / AUTOMATIC SEC UPDATES

Can operating cash cover the buildout?

CASH ABSORBED BY CAPEX
82.9%Cash coverage

$586.4B cash capex ÷ $707.3B operating cash flow.

17.1% aggregate cash-flow cushion at fixed capex. This company-wide ratio can exceed 100%; it is not a bubble score, solvency measure, or AI-only return.

Original score retired after methodological audit ↗
+0.0 pp since Sep 26

Cash capex / OCF · Unweighted, uncapped accounting ratio

THE LONGER VIEW

Cash absorption over time

Cash capex / OCF · %

Filings available at each date · Fixed five-company cohort

UNDER THE SURFACE

The economics behind the number

Download data

The spending-to-cash-flow gap

Cash capex$586.4B
Operating cash flow$707.3B

Trailing 12 months
Company-wide totals

82.9% of operating cash goes back into cash capex. Includes non-AI investment; excludes noncash lease additions.

THE CURRENT READOUT

Three things to take away

Spending is outrunning sales

Cash capex grew 83.9% year over year. Revenue grew 18.7%.

TTM VS. PRIOR TTM

Margins are still holding

Operating margin expanded 0.25 percentage points. That supports current operating earnings.

COMPANY-WIDE PROFITABILITY

The exposure is uneven

Oracle spends 161.2% of operating cash on capex. The average hides the differences.

Calculated from the latest available filings. No new filing means no new fundamental signal.

FOLLOW THE BUILDERS

Five balance sheets. One buildout.

USD · TRAILING 12 MONTHS
COMPANYPERIOD ENDCASH CAPEXOPERATING CASH FLOWCAPEX / OCFCASH-FLOW RESIDUALDetails
Jun 26$115.9B$182.9B
63.4%
$67.0B
Jun 26$132.4B$185.7B
71.3%
$53.3B
Jun 26$173.0B$161.4B
107.2%
$-11.6B
Jun 26$89.3B$130.3B
68.6%
$41.0B
Aug 26$75.7B$46.9B
161.2%
$-28.7B
SEC EDGAR · All 5 companies coveredFiscal ends: 2026-06-30 to 2026-08-31. Mixed periods; not AI-only.

02 / FOLLOW THE MONEY

The labs, the supplier, and the financing web.

Who earns cash, who buys compute, and who ultimately carries the risk?

O

OpenAI

Frontier lab / compute buyer

Revenue pace

$2bn/month
Company disclosureMar 31, 2026

Monthly pace reported March 2026; not audited annual revenue.

A

Anthropic

Frontier lab / compute buyer

Revenue pace

>$47bn run rate
Company disclosureMay 28, 2026

Company-reported annualized pace, not GAAP annual sales.

X

SpaceX / xAI

Public parent / AI segment / compute provider

AI segment Q2 revenue

$2.561bn
SEC filingJun 30, 2026

Q2 AI segment: Grok, X and infrastructure. $1.257B operating loss.

N

NVIDIA

Supplier / financing exposure

Supplier TTM revenue

$303.0B
Calculated · SECJul 26, 2026

TTM company-wide. 74.7% gross margin · $134.4B operating cash flow.

Different periods and definitions; these figures are not directly comparable or additive. Supplier sales, cloud spending, and lab revenue overlap along the value chain. Nvidia financials refresh from SEC; lab disclosures, segment details, and commitments are reviewed snapshots dated at source. Last editorial review: Sep 6, 2026.

The Stratechery question: who is underwriting demand?

Ben Thompson argues that Nvidia’s residual-value support shifts financing risk while protecting supplier margins. Track actual obligations, customer concentration, and cash collection alongside revenue. The $500B-plus mobilization target is preliminary; support of up to 25% applies to individual opportunities, not the entire target.

Read Thompson’s analysis · Aug 11, 2026Nvidia’s disclosed mechanism

03 / THE COST OF CAPITAL & COMPUTE

Rates set the hurdle. Power sets the pace.

Useful context, kept outside the score until their predictive contribution is tested.

Financing conditions

FEDERAL RESERVE H.15
5.21%10-year Treasury · nominal
2.88%10-year Treasury · real

Higher risk-free rates lower the present value of distant cash flows and raise the cost of new or refinanced debt. Credit spreads and debt terms determine what each borrower actually pays.

Sensitivity: +1 percentage point on $100B of new or repriced debt adds $1B in annual interest. An illustration, not a current interest bill.

Nominal and inflation-indexed constant-maturity yields. Falling Treasury yields during a recession can coexist with rising credit stress; lower rates do not automatically mean less bubble risk.

Observed Oct 13, 2026Checked Oct 14, 2026

Electricity demand

U.S. DATA CENTERS
176 TWh2023 historical estimate
→
325–580 TWh2028 scenario range
Solid: lower scenario · patterned: range to upper scenario

More power can unlock useful demand or enable excess capacity. Track the path from announced capacity to contracted, under construction, energized, and utilized capacity.

DOE / Berkeley Lab, published Dec 20, 2024. A dated scenario, not a live 2028 reading or the latest forecast. TWh measures energy consumed; GW measures power capacity. No comparable live buildout series is included yet.

Federal Reserve and Nvidia feeds are checked every six hours when the site is visited; the page checks the cache every five minutes. Failed checks preserve the previous value and its verification date.

04 / WHAT WOULD CHANGE THE VIEW?

Three lenses. No assumed consensus.

Research questions for serious readers; these are not endorsements by named experts.

ECONOMIST

Do returns clear the cost of capital?

Compare incremental cash earnings with investment, depreciation, and financing costs. Add valuation and credit spreads before calling this a market-bubble index.

Missing test

Point-in-time, broad-cohort comparisons with failed firms and other investment cycles.

AI RESEARCHER

Does capability become paid utility?

Track retained paid usage, inference cost per useful task, utilization, and gross profit after serving costs. Benchmark gains alone cannot establish returns.

Missing test

Comparable lab unit economics and independent measures of customer value.

CREDIT / INFRASTRUCTURE

Who absorbs the downside?

Follow customer concentration, enforceable guarantees, debt maturities, chip resale values, and delivered power. Announcements are not operating capacity.

Missing test

Contract-level obligations, refinancing exposure, and energized versus idle MW.

THE DEMAND SIDE

Adoption is real.
Returns take longer.

88%

of surveyed organizations reported using AI in 2025. Adoption is not paid revenue or proof of profitable deployment.

Stanford AI Index 2026Annual snapshot · Separate fundamental context

THE CAPABILITY SIDE

The technology
keeps improving.

66.3%

OSWorld computer-use benchmark accuracy in 2025, up from about 12%. A task benchmark, not economy-wide productivity.

Stanford technical performanceAnnual snapshot · Separate fundamental context

KNOW THE BLIND SPOTS

A useful lens.
An incomplete picture.

Public company cash flows
Spending and earnings trends
—Stock-market valuations
—Comparable lab profits & full obligations

A real technology boom can coexist with financial overinvestment. This beta measures one part of that story.

WHAT TO WATCH NEXT

The next filing matters more than the next headline.

Watch capex guidance, cash-flow coverage, and margins in the next reports. New financial facts flow into the dashboard automatically.

Follow SEC releases