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Re:The Bubble Question by mcmullen on Thursday April 24, 2014 @04:26AM (#7638992)
Cheap money (or, low rates with "safe" bond markets) + high growth tech = sky high valuations - got it, Fred.

Just, one more thing... how did he go from the 10% yield ($100M / 10M = 10% yield) to "if interest rates are 5% instead of 10%, then you would pay $200mm for the business ($10mm/$200mm = 5%)." Is he simply interchanging the word "yield" with "interest rates" or actually talking about the central bank?

Re:The Bubble Question by badamson on Thursday April 24, 2014 @05:03AM (#7639068)
(s/b 10M / 100M = 10%). He is interchanging the terms and he should have written things differently to avoid confusion. It s/b "yield = annual earnings/purchase price", not "interest rates = annual earnings/purchase price". (He does correct himself later in the paragraph.)
Re:The Bubble Question by mcmullen on Thursday April 24, 2014 @05:07AM (#7639075)
Thanks for the clarification!