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Why Is the Recession Taking So Long to Show Up? | Bob Elliott

Hidden Forces

CHAPTER

The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Stock Prices

Is it largely speculators seeing an opportunity to pile in that's driving this? Or is it mostly now just the self-fulfilling prophecy of market participants who are anticipating that this is a dynamic that will continue and so they just want to get ahead of the trade anyway? Well, I think that's a really important idea of a self-fulfilled prophecy with stock prices when it comes to banks. It goes from the dog wagging its tail to the tail wagging the dog as the speculators become concerned or see an opportunity to profit from it. The taxpayer pays for the outcome here if these banks get driven into resolution.

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