Crypto assets are a bubble
Crypto assets have the characterstic price behaviour that resembles many other bubbles and market manias throughout history. Bitcoin has been characterised as a speculative bubble by eight winners of the Nobel Prize in economics.
- Paul Krugman
- Robert J. Shiller
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Richard Thaler
- James Heckman
- Thomas Sargent
- Angus Deaton
- Oliver Hart
And by central bank officials:
- Alan Greenspan
- AgustÃn Carstens
- VÃtor Constâncio
- Nout Wellink
- Mark Carney
And several notable investors have also described it as a bubble:
- Warren Buffet
- George Soros
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