Kauaiguy says: Listen to the podcast or go to Bill Moyers Journal and watch the video. Excellent interview with surprising assessments of current policy and market ideology. And, you see, it wasn't only in the housing market. There were all kinds of other financial instruments. So there was not just one bubble. I describe in my book there is the housing bubble. But this housing bubble, when that burst, it was only the detonator that exploded the bigger bubble, the super bubble. Which is this 25 years of constant credit expansion using greater and greater leverage. The amount of credit in the economy has been growing at, I don't know, I don't know the exact figure, but maybe at least twice as fast as the economy itself. I think it's more like three. And now, suddenly, you have a contraction of credit. And it's a sudden thing. And it's a period of great wealth destruction. Didn't Soros just get charged with insider trading, not the best example of a successful financial expert. |
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