and we covered this as well when the michael beurre tweet stream covered what happened and weimar germany and you saw a massive speculation on the stock market that was one of the earliest signs of the hyperinflation to come so here's an interesting set of charts from wall street dot com and the title is stock market leverage spikes in historic man or another what the heck chart of a zoo that has gone nuts and the current craze that encompasses everything from sneakers and f t's to stocks or valuations don't matter because of widespread certainty that valuations will be even greater in a few days and where folks are chasing lottery type returns supported by the fed's interest rate repression and 3 trillion dollars and asset purchases and by the government's trillions of dollars of handouts and bell outs well in this perfect world there is a fly in the oil meant vast amounts of leverage including stock market leverage so as to show you the leverage in the stock market he has 2 charts the 1st one is the rate of change and margin debt from the previous year so that she posts this past year s