Why We Could Use a Good, Long Bear Market... Dangerous Complacency Created by Prolonged Short Downturns (WSJ)
Why We Could Use a Good, Long Bear Market... Dangerous Complacency Created by Prolonged Short Downturns <WSJ>
๐ Summary
The past 16 years of brief downturns and swift recoveries have fostered reckless behavior and dangerous complacency among investors, encouraging the 'buy the dip' mentality, and underscoring the educational necessity of a long bear market to remind participants of sound capital market principles, according to a <WSJ> report on Nov. 17.
๐ Why It Matters! (Meaning and Context)
This analysis argues for the necessity of a long bear market in the stock market, warning of the risks in the current environment where participants are accustomed to short corrections. Unlike the severe bear market of 2007-09, recent shallow and short downturns have encouraged investors to recklessly buy the dip, intensifying the flow of capital toward speculative assets and unproven companies. This state of market exuberance is serious because it undermines the capital market's fundamental function—connecting sound businesses with long-term savings—and has taught investors a sense of dangerous complacency. A proper, long bear market can serve as a crucial educational tool, performing a therapeutic role by cooling down excessive speculation and irrational market fervor.
๐ฅ Key Takeaways
1️⃣ Absence of the 'Therapeutic' Role of Long Bear Markets
* The 2007-09 bear market (S&P 500 fell by over half) took 66 months to regain its previous high, fulfilling a therapeutic role by offering long-term investors opportunities to purchase solid businesses at bargain prices.
* Conversely, the five subsequent short downturns encouraged swift and reckless 'buy the dip' behavior, stimulating speculative sentiment and teaching dangerous complacency.
* Downturns in the past 16 years have typically taken less than eight months to reach the previous high, preventing the market from having enough time to resolve excess exuberance.
2️⃣ Irrational Market Exuberance Caused by Short Downturns
* Phenomena such as the overvaluation and soaring stock prices of fraudulent companies (Nikola) or bankrupt companies (Hertz) appeared during the rapid rebound following short downturns.
* The recent advance has been led by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) theme and numerous unproven, unprofitable companies, demonstrating market exuberance with capital concentrating in speculative themes.
* A long bear market accompanied by a recession discredits the most extreme themes and cheerleaders of the preceding boom and reminds us of the market's essential function (connecting mostly sound businesses with patient savers' nest eggs).
3️⃣ Lack of Historical Experience and Promotion of Speculation
* Bear markets accompanied by a recession (26 occurrences in the last century) took an average of 81 months to reach the previous high, compared to just 21 months without one, highlighting the significance of economic contraction.
* The quick recovery after the 1998 Long-Term Capital Management collapse, driven by Fed intervention, further fueled the tech bubble, partly because few market participants at the time had personally experienced a truly nasty, long downturn.
* Even today, hardly anyone younger than 40 had a 401(k) during the 2007-09 wipeout, meaning the lack of direct experience with the educational effect of a bear market poses a risk of leading to excessive speculation.
๐ Conclusion
Over the last 16 years, the stock market has repeatedly followed a pattern of short declines followed by quick rebounds, instilling in investors a reckless investment habit of 'buying the dip' and a sense of dangerous complacency. This has accelerated the speculative flow of capital into unproven companies, including those associated with the AI theme, leading to market exuberance. In contrast, a proper, long bear market accompanied by an economic recession, like that of 2007-09, serves a vital educational function by resolving overheated market sentiment and reminding participants that the capital market should connect sound businesses with long-term savings. The absence of such a long bear market leaves younger investors, in particular, lacking crucial experience with the risks of investing, thereby encouraging excessive speculation.
๐ท️ Keywords
#LongBearMarket #MarketExuberance #ShortDownturn #BuyTheDip #DangerousComplacency #SpeculativeSentiment #CapitalMarketFunction #EconomicRecession #StockMarketEducation
์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ด ํ์ํ๊ฐ? ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์์ผํจ์ด ์กฐ์ฑํ๋ ์ํํ ์์ฅ ๊ณผ์ด
๐ ํ์ค์์ฝ
์ง๋ 16๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋จ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ๊ณผ ๋น ๋ฅธ ํ๋ณต์ ํฌ์์๋ค์๊ฒ 'ํ๋ฝ ์ ๋งค์'๋ผ๋ ๋ฌด๋ชจํ ํ๋์ ๋ถ์ถ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ์์ฅ ๊ณผ์ด๊ณผ ์ํํ ์์ผํจ์ ์กฐ์ฑํ๊ณ , ๊ฑด์ ํ ์๋ณธ ์์ฅ์ ์์น์ ์๊ธฐ์ํค๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ ๊ต์ก์ ํ์์ฑ์ด ๋๋๋๋ค. <WSJ> 11์ 17์ผ์ ๋ณด๋.
๐ ์ ์ค์ํ๊ฐ! (์๋ฏธ์ ๋งฅ๋ฝ)
์ฃผ์ ์์ฅ์์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ด ํ์ํ ์ด์ ์ ๋ํด ๋ ผํ๋ฉฐ, ๋จ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์ ์ ์ต์ํด์ง ํ ์์ฅ์ ์ํ์ฑ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ๋ค. 2007-09๋ ์ ๊ทน์ฌํ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ๊ณผ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ ์ต๊ทผ์ ์งง๊ณ ์์ ํ๋ฝ์ ํฌ์์๋ค์ด ์ ์ ๋งค์(Buy the dip)๋ฅผ ๋ฌด๋ชจํ๊ฒ ์๋ํ๋๋ก ์ฅ๋ คํ์ฌ ํฌ๊ธฐ์ฑ ์์ฐ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ฒ์ฆ ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก์ ์๊ธ ์ ๋ฆผ ํ์์ ์ฌํ์์ผฐ๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ฅ ๊ณผ์ด ์ํ๋ ์๋ณธ ์์ฅ์ด ๊ฑด์คํ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ถ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ค๋ ๋ณธ๋์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ํผ์ํ๊ณ , ํฌ์์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ํํ ์์ผํจ์ ํ์ต์์ผฐ๋ค๋ ์ ์์ ์ฌ๊ฐํ๋ค. ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ ๊ณผ๋ํ ํฌ๊ธฐ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ์ฌ์ฐ๊ณ ์์ฅ์ ๋น์ด์ฑ์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ํ๋ ์น๋ฃ์ ์ญํ ์ ์ํํ๋ ์ค์ํ ๊ต์ก์ ์ฅ์ด ๋ ์ ์๋ค.
๐ฅ ํต์ฌ ํฌ์ธํธ (Key takeaways)
1️⃣ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ '์น๋ฃ์ ' ์ญํ ๋ถ์ฌ
* 2007-09๋ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ(S&P 500์ด ๋ฐํ ๋ง ์ด์ ํ๋ฝ)์ 66๊ฐ์ ๋ง์ ์ด์ ๊ณ ์ ์ ํ๋ณตํ์ผ๋, ์ฅ๊ธฐ ํฌ์์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฒฌ์คํ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋งค์ํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ์น๋ฃ์ ์ญํ ์ ์ํํจ.
* ๋ฐ๋ฉด, ์ดํ 5์ฐจ๋ก์ ์งง์ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ ํฌ์์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ ์ํ๊ณ ๋ฌด๋ชจํ ์ ์ ๋งค์๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ถ๊ฒจ ํฌ๊ธฐ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์๊ทนํ๊ณ ์ํํ ์์ผํจ์ ํ์ต์ํด.
* ์ง๋ 16๋ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ฝ์ฅ์ ์ด์ ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ณต๊น์ง ํ๊ท 8๊ฐ์ ๋ฏธ๋ง์ด ์์๋์ด, ์์ฅ์ด ๊ณผ์ด์ ํด์ํ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ง ๋ชปํจ.
2️⃣ ๋จ๊ธฐ ํ๋ฝ์ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ์์ฅ ๋น์ด์ฑ์ ๊ณผ์ด
* ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ฑ ๊ธฐ์ (๋์ฝ๋ผ)์ด๋ ํ์ฐ ๊ธฐ์ (ํ์ธ )์ ์ฃผ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ณผ๋ํ๊ฐ๋๋ฉฐ ๊ธ๋ฑํ๋ ํ์์ด ๋จ๊ธฐ ํ๋ฝ์ฅ ์ดํ์ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๋ฐ๋ฑ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ๋ํ๋จ.
* ์ต๊ทผ์ ์์น์ธ๋ ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ(AI)๊ณผ ๊ฒ์ฆ๋์ง ์์, ์์ต์ฑ ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ค์ด ์ฃผ๋ํ๋ฉฐ ํฌ๊ธฐ์ ํ ๋ง์ ์๊ธ์ด ์ง์ค๋๋ ์์ฅ ๊ณผ์ด ํ์์ ๋ณด์.
* ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋๋ฐํ ๋ ์ง๋ ํธํฉ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ์ด๋ ํ ๋ง์ ๊ทธ ์ง์ง์๋ค์ ๋ฌด์ํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ , ์์ฅ์ ๋ณธ์ง์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ(๊ฑด์คํ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ ์ถ์์ ์๊ธ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ)์ ์๊ธฐ์ํด.
3️⃣ ์ญ์ฌ์ ๊ฒฝํ ๋ถ์ฌ์ ํฌ๊ธฐ ์ด์ง
* ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด๊ฐ ๋๋ฐ๋ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ(26์ฐจ๋ก ๋ฐ์)์ ์ด์ ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ณต์ ํ๊ท 81๊ฐ์์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ๋ฉด, ์นจ์ฒด๊ฐ ์์์ ๋๋ 21๊ฐ์์ด ์์๋์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด์ ์ค์์ฑ์ด ๊ฐ์กฐ๋จ.
* 1998๋ ๋กฑํ ์บํผํธ ๋งค๋์ง๋จผํธ ๋ถ๊ดด ์ดํ Fed ๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฃผ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํ๋ณต๋์(11์๊น์ง ์ ๊ธฐ๋ก), ์ด๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฒ๋ธ์ ๋์ฑ ๋ถ์ถ๊ฒผ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋น์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ํ๋ฝ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฝํํ์ง ๋ชปํ ํฌ์์๋ค์ด ๋ง์์.
* ์ค๋๋ ์๋ 40์ธ ๋ฏธ๋ง ํฌ์์ ์ค 2007-09๋ ๋ํญ๋ฝ์ ์ง์ ๊ฒฝํํ ์ฌ๋์ด ๊ฑฐ์ ์์ด, ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ ๊ต์ก์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ฒด๋ํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋ถ์กฑํ์ฌ ๊ณผ๋ํ ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง ์ํ์ด ํผ.
๐ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด
์ง๋ 16๋ ๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ ์์ฅ์ ๋จ๊ธฐ ํ๋ฝ ํ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ฑํ๋ ํจํด์ ๋ฐ๋ณตํ๋ฉฐ ํฌ์์๋ค ์ฌ์ด์ 'ํ๋ฝ ์ ๋งค์'๋ผ๋ ๋ฌด๋ชจํ ํฌ์ ์ต๊ด๊ณผ ์ํํ ์์ผํจ์ ์ฌ์ด์ฃผ์๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ธ๊ณต์ง๋ฅ ํ ๋ง๋ฅผ ๋น๋กฏํ ๋ฏธ๊ฒ์ฆ ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก์ ํฌ๊ธฐ์ ์๊ธ ์ ๋ฆผ์ ๊ฐ์ํํ๋ฉฐ ์์ฅ ๊ณผ์ด์ ์ด๋ํ๋ค. ์ด์ ๋์กฐ์ ์ผ๋ก, 2007-09๋ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ ์นจ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋๋ฐํ ์ ๋๋ก ๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ ๊ณผ์ด๋ ์์ฅ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํด์ํ๊ณ , ์๋ณธ ์์ฅ์ด ๊ฑด์คํ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ ์ถ์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋ค๋ ๋ณธ์ง์ ์ธ ์ญํ ์ ์๊ธฐ์ํค๋ ์ค์ํ ๊ต์ก์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ํ๋ค. ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ์ด ๋ถ์ฌํ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ํนํ ์ ์ ์ธ๋ ํฌ์์๋ค์๊ฒ ํฌ์์ ์ํ์ฑ์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๊ฒฐ์ฌ์์ผ ๊ณผ๋ํ ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถ์ถ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณ๋๋ค.
๐ท️ ํค์๋
#์ฅ๊ธฐ์ฝ์ธ์ฅ #์์ฅ๊ณผ์ด #๋จ๊ธฐํ๋ฝ #์ ์ ๋งค์ #BuyTheDip #์ํํ์์ผํจ #ํฌ๊ธฐ์ฌ๋ฆฌ #์๋ณธ์์ฅ๋ณธ์ง #๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ์นจ์ฒด #์ฃผ์์์ฅ๊ต์ก
๐จ์ฃผ์: ์ด ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ ์๋ฃ๋ ์ ์๊ถ์ ์ํด ๋ณดํธ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ์์ ๋ค๋ฃจ๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ ํฌ์ ๊ถ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํน์ ๊ธ์ต ์ํ์ ๋งค์ ๋๋ ๋งค๋๋ฅผ ๊ถ์ฅํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ํฌ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์ฑ ์ ํ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ ธ์ผ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ์์ ์ฑ ์์ง์ง ์์ต๋๋ค.