An article in the Realestate Journal quotes Carol Willis, founder of New York's Skyscraper Museum . Her insights might show an interesting metric to gauge how overheated stocks may be.

She notes a similarity to the 1920's with respect to skyscraper construction, or more precisely, planning of late. Willis say, in the last paragraph:

...the curves, bends and contortions of today's tall buildings echo a skyscraper boom -- and eventual bust -- in the late 1920s. While many famous spires went up before the 1929 stock-market crash, she says there were "many more announcements for the tallest building or eccentric designs, some brightly colored, that never got built."

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