Harry Dent: The Bubble That Just Keeps Going: Is AMD the Last Blow-Off?

“A bubble is a bull market in which you don’t have a position.”

-Eddy Elfenbein

November 3, 2025 — There has simply never been a bubble like this one. Now it’s over 16.5 years, 5.0 – 5.5 is the typical bubble before it hits extremes that aren’t sustainable.

The last 5.5 years since COVID would qualify as a bubble on its own, but the performance all the way back to early 2009 is more bubbly than normal very good times like 1950-65.

Hence, to me this is the first 16.5-year bubble and still rising… surely it can’t go much more!

And major stock tops typically come in the fall of odd years, with only the early 2000 top as an exception, especially in September/October: like NOW!

Investors still playing this should have a quick trigger, as bubbles always burst twice as fast as they build.

We have seen one index, sector or leading stock after the next go up and make dramatic new highs.

The latest one is AMD.

This leading AI stock is following Nvidia, making a dramatic last run straight up and will hit a top trend line around $275 as this chart shows. It’s already hit $243 last Monday.

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Hopefully, AMD is the final blow-off, especially if it hits its top trend-line just ahead around $275.

Damn this bubble! Investors are so spoiled now it’s hard for them to see any substantial downside to be afraid of. Governments and central banks seem to have finally tamed “The Shrew.” I still think not, but… damn!

Harry
Harry Dent & Grey Swan Investment Fraternity

P.S. from Addison: This short piece is classic Harry – straight to the point, pulls no punches, and calls out bubble behavior to a T. We first met Harry way back… while doing research for Financial Reckoning Day after the collapse of the tech bubble.

Harry is a notable authority on demographic trends and had just published a book called The Roaring 2000s, in which he examined the investing trends of the baby boomers and how they were likely to impact the stock market indexes. As the stock market had just sustained a severe correction following the tech wreck, his forecast that the Dow and S&P 500 were about to embark on a multi-year bull market seemed outrageous.

In October of 1999, when Harry’s book hit the shelves, the Dow had yet to correct and was trading around 11,000. The Roaring 2000s then made the case that baby boomers preparing for retirement would drive the index above 35,000 within the decade.
In the throes of the tech bust, the forecast seemed improbable.

But today, quite the opposite. In fact, it sounds kind of quaint now, doesn’t it?
The Dow hit a historic 47,835 last Wednesday.

This week on Grey Swan Live!, (Thursday @ 2pm EST/11am PST) Mr. Dent will join us to bring us up to date on his demographic forecast for the next decade. And why he’s decided to “re-enter the public spotlight” with a forecast on the impact of the AI bubble and employment trends for the next generation.

We’ll also take a peek behind the scenes of the presentation Harry and Grey Swan alum Adam O’Dell will be releasing this Wednesday. They are forecasting that today’s tech bubble will end up much like the dotcom bubble… and will be digging into how, when and why.

If you’d like, you can drop your most pressing questions right here: Feedback@GreySwanFraternity.com. We’ll be sure to work them in during the conversation.

“A bubble is a bull market in which you don’t have a position.”

-Eddy Elfenbein

November 3, 2025 — There has simply never been a bubble like this one. Now it’s over 16.5 years, 5.0 – 5.5 is the typical bubble before it hits extremes that aren’t sustainable.

The last 5.5 years since COVID would qualify as a bubble on its own, but the performance all the way back to early 2009 is more bubbly than normal very good times like 1950-65.

Hence, to me this is the first 16.5-year bubble and still rising… surely it can’t go much more!

And major stock tops typically come in the fall of odd years, with only the early 2000 top as an exception, especially in September/October: like NOW!

Investors still playing this should have a quick trigger, as bubbles always burst twice as fast as they build.

We have seen one index, sector or leading stock after the next go up and make dramatic new highs.

The latest one is AMD.

This leading AI stock is following Nvidia, making a dramatic last run straight up and will hit a top trend line around $275 as this chart shows. It’s already hit $243 last Monday.

Turn Your Images On

Hopefully, AMD is the final blow-off, especially if it hits its top trend-line just ahead around $275.

Harry
Harry Dent & Grey Swan Investment Fraternity

But today, quite the opposite. In fact, it sounds kind of quaint now, doesn’t it?
The Dow hit a historic 47,835 last Wednesday.

If you’d like, you can drop your most pressing questions right here: Feedback@GreySwanFraternity.com. We’ll be sure to work them in during the conversation.

America has consistently reinvented itself in times of crisis. The founders survived monarchy. Lincoln survived disunion. We’ve survived bank panics, oil shocks, stagflation, and disco. We’ll survive deplatforming, too.

The Second American Revolution won’t be fought with muskets or manifestos. It won’t be fought with petty violence and street demonstrations. It will be written into code. And available to those who wish to take advantage of it.

Russell Kirk called the first American Revolution “a revolution not made, but prevented.” The second will be the same. We’re not tearing down the house — we’re going to rewire it in code.

The result may not be utopia. But it will be freedom you can bank on.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has called stablecoins, including USDC, “a pillar of dollar strength,” estimating a $2 trillion market within five years. U.S. Treasuries back every coin.

Bessent’s formula even suggests that a broader, more efficient market for US dollars will help retain its best use case as the reserve currency of global finance… and, perhaps, help the current administration address the nation’s $37 trillion mountain of debt.

In trying to cancel a man, the establishment accidentally reinforced the dollar, and may add decades to its life as a useful currency.

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s worth recalling that our first Revolution wasn’t waged to destroy an order — it was fought to preserve one.

Political philosopher Russell Kirk called it “a revolution not made but prevented.” The colonists sought not chaos but continuity — the defense of their “chartered rights as Englishmen,” not the birth of an entirely new world. Kirk wrote:

“The American Revolution was a preventive movement, intended to preserve an old constitutional structure. The French Revolution meant the destruction of the fabric of society.”

The difference, Kirk argued, was moral. The American Revolution was rooted in ordered liberty; the French in ideological frenzy. The first produced a Constitution; the second, a guillotine.

Two and a half centuries later, the argument continues — only now, the battlefield is financial. Who controls access to money? Who defines legitimacy? Can a citizen’s ability to transact depend on their politics?

Trump and Powell are no buddies. They’ve been fighting over rate cuts all year—Trump demanding more, Powell holding back. Even after cutting twice, Trump called him “grossly incompetent” and said he’d “love to fire” him. The tension has been building for months.

And Trump now seems ready to install someone who shares his appetite for lower rates and easier money.

Trump has been dropping hints for weeks—saying on November 18, “I think I already know my choice,” and then doubling down last Sunday aboard Air Force One with, “I know who I am going to pick… we’ll be announcing it.”

He was referring to one Kevin Hassett, who—according to a recent Bloomberg report—has emerged as the overwhelming favorite to become the next Fed chair.