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... When the central bank makes interest rates artificially low, it makes capital investment cheap and skews the economy toward capital intensive sectors. But that cheap credit hasn’t actually created any real resources, so you end up with increased spending on both capital and consumer goods. ...
... There was arguably over investment in residential home construction. In 2006 and 2007 the home building industry was contracting while other industries were still growing. But in mid 2008, the situation changed. ...
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... If I'm reading the numbers right, around 800K bitcoins mined in 2021; at $50K each, that's around 0.2% of US GDP 5/ By contrast, residential investment peaked at almost 7% of GDP and fell by more than 4% 6/ https://t.co/PDSNM4BV7l And there surely isn't enough leveraged buying of crypto to create 2008 ...
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... thanks to the inflow of investment, as during the internet bubble. ...
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... Compared to 2000, there are less opportunities for retail speculative investing if VCs are providing the lion share of financing for tech companies at earlier stage. ...
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