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FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert Hockett

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The Pyramid Structure of the Junk Bond Market

In the junk bond market, people got excited about that initial promise or that new increment of value that was promised by the new instrument. And then they started hyping it to other people and other people got caught up in the excitement of it. In no time at all, the wealth that the new product represented was not really the product of new value added but was instead the product of other people crowding into it and buying it. So it became a classic Ponzi structure without any need of any specific Ponzi. It's the classic Minsky style structure which is effectively a pyramid structure or again a Ponzi style structure. We see it again and again and again with new

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