A Bloomberg interviewer suggested that if you exclude tech stocks the market is only trading at 20x earnings (implying reasonableness), but this is a fallacy because 20x earnings is still 'very rich valuations' and excluding all the overvalued parts does not make the market cheap.

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Michael Pento

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if you take out the tech stocks... the market's only trading at 20 times earnings. Well, let me see. So, so if you take out everything that's in a bubble, the market's still in a bubble because 20 times earnings is still very rich valuations.

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$3,500 GOLD – IS A DEPRESSION NEXT? | MICHAEL PENTOSoar Financially
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:26:40 AM

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