Hertz bubble says it all

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Via FTAlphaville:

Hertz, the bankrupt car rental company which has become the poster-child for the current market’s speculative excess over the past fortnight, just filed this with the SEC.

In case you’re wondering what that is, it’s the document outlining the company’s unprecedented $500m share sale which was sanctioned by American courts Friday night. Despite, we should add, the shares likely being worth zero.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.