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Ted Butler: Investors have eyes wide shut about silver
By Ted Butler
SilverSeek.com
Thursday, June 9, 2022
Paul Krugman, the economist whose work you either love or hate, had a compelling editorial this week in the New York Times titled, "From the Big Short to the Big Scam," in which he compared the real estate bubble of 2006 and subsequent crash to cryptocurrencies today.
Because the article was behind a subscription paywall, I'll not link it here, and my purpose today is not to agree or disagree with Krugman's connection of the real estate bubble/bust to crypto's but to bring out a most astute observation he made.
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Krugman made the compelling case that what enabled a relative handful of market participants to recognize and act upon the extreme mispricing of real estate into the 2006 bubble peak and sell short subprime mortgage derivatives contracts was the belief among the majority of market participants that real estate would not collapse.
His term to describe the widespread belief at the time that real estate prices would continue to climb was the "incredulity factor," and, to use Krugman's own words, therein was the problem, namely:
"... the sheer scale of the mispricing that the skeptics claimed to see. Even though there was clear evidence that housing prices were out of line, it was hard to believe they were that far out of line -- that $6 trillion in real estate wealth would evaporate, that investors in mortgage-backed securities would lose around $1 trillion. It just didn't seem plausible that markets, and the conventional wisdom saying that markets were OK, could be that wrong. But they were."
If you get a chance to read the entire article, I'll leave it up to you to decide if Krugman made the case between the real estate boom/bust of 2006 and crypto's today. Instead, the lightbulb that went off in my head when reading his piece concerned -- what else? -- silver. ...
... For the remainder of the analysis:
https://silverseek.com/article/eyes-wide-shut
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