As the EV bubble bursts, old school car makers boom

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Since the turn of the month, markets have been quiet. Almost too quiet you might say. After several percentage point gyrations in the key indices over March as new data flowed daily on vaccination rates, Covid case levels and US fiscal stimulus, everything seemed to calm down. Hell, even the VIX has dipped below 20.

So we thought it an opportune time to revisit our EV bubble spreadsheet from mid-January, which we’ve been updating fortnightly since we cobbled the document together one winter afternoon.

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About the author

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.