• bitofhope@awful.systems
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    5 days ago

    In a way every bubble economy is already a meta-bubble in that they don’t just aim to generate hype about tulips, but also to generate hype about hype about tulips.

    And like @YourNetworkIsHaunted pointed out, it’s a pretty good description of private equity in general. More abstractly, every stock market crash is a consequence of some first-order bubble winning the meta-bubble race.