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Re:Margin Debt Surges 9.5% in June to Record High by koolba on Thursday August 21, 2025 @08:36AM (#44972002)
These raw numbers are meaningless to compare. If anything it should show margin debt as a fraction of total assets (or total market size as a proxy).
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Re:Margin Debt Surges 9.5% in June to Record High by atq2119 on Thursday August 21, 2025 @10:43AM (#44973417)
The other thing is that whenever I see graphs like that spanning decades but not using a logarithmic scale, I can't help but roll my eyes a bit.

We may well be approaching a dotcom moment, but this kind of graph automatically exaggerates what's happening more recently.

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Re:Margin Debt Surges 9.5% in June to Record High by haginile on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:38PM (#44977096)
From our library - expressed as percentages of gdp or market cap: https://x.com/augurinfinity/status/1958564629040251267?s=46
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Re:Margin Debt Surges 9.5% in June to Record High by koolba on Thursday August 21, 2025 @07:44PM (#44979557)
The divergence is very interesting!
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