"In general, no significant, continuous rise in the price of securities can be accounted for by an improvement in production conditions nor by an increase in voluntary saving; such a rise can only be indefinitely maintained as a result of inflationary growth in credit expansion. A sustained improvement in the economy and an increase in voluntary saving generate a greater monetary influx into the stock market, but this inflow is slower and more gradual and is rapidly absorbed by the new securities issued by companies with an aim to finance their new investment projects. Only continuous, disproportionate growth in the money supply in the form of credit expansion can feed the speculative mania (or 'irrational exuberance') which characterizes all stock market booms." - Jesús Huerta de Soto, ***Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles*** (2020) p. 433 4th ed. Translated by Melinda Stroup.
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