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    2 days ago

    Can we head them off at the pass?

    No. Never.

    Can it come to pass that their heads come off?

    “All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.”

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            6 hours ago

            The reason it never crashed before is because it never bubbled before.

            The reason it never bubbled before is because the banks never wrote junk mortgages before.

            The reason the banks never wrote junk mortgages before was because they didn’t realize that they were “too big to fail.”

            Massive wealth inequality also drives the situation, because there’s a small slice of people who can afford anything and they tend to drive up the prices of things for other people who can’t really afford the run-up.