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The global financial crisis was principally caused by the fact that the financial system was leveraged approximately 150-to-1 (!!!)
This was only enabled due to central bank policy, which consistently prevented system-wide deleveraging over three (!) decades.
The solution - quantitative easing (QE) - merely caused an unsustainable credit system to metastasize over the next ten years, making future quantitative easing inevitable.
Therefore, the existing financial system is living on borrowed time.
- an excerpt from the 2-minute version of Gradually, Then Suddenly (2019) https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/gradually-then-suddenly-bitcoin
This was only enabled due to central bank policy, which consistently prevented system-wide deleveraging over three (!) decades.
The solution - quantitative easing (QE) - merely caused an unsustainable credit system to metastasize over the next ten years, making future quantitative easing inevitable.
Therefore, the existing financial system is living on borrowed time.
- an excerpt from the 2-minute version of Gradually, Then Suddenly (2019) https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/gradually-then-suddenly-bitcoin