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There is so much global wealth sloshing around, it has to go somewhere
They're buying up everything that they think will go up - real estate, farmland, stocks, bonds, gold. Not only the wealthy, but 401K and pension funds. Hard to say how long it can go on, but with so much money, perhaps longer than we think.