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Gibbon1 • yesterday at 7:31 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The cause is always a failure of underwriting. That was true of the Savings and Loan Crisis, the Great Financial Crisis.

It feels like each bubble gets bigger.


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chollida1 • yesterday at 8:12 PM

> It feels like each bubble gets bigger.

Well you would expect that given that the market keeps getting bigger and the money in circulation keeps getting bigger.

Inflation alone means each bubble should be bigger than the last all other things being equal.

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theideaofcoffee • yesterday at 8:02 PM

And for this one when insurance companies are forming syndicates because their underwriting becomes greater than any one company, it just sounds frightening, the sound this thing is going to make when it finally pops.