John wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:32 pm
** 22-Mar-2021 World View: Everything is a bubble?
Cool Breeze wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:17 am
> Here's your problem, and why you can't think straight about this
> topic: everything is a bubble to you. You can't even differentiate
> value from a bubble, because your whimsical approach doesn't
> define what either is. Sorry, you don't get to just declare
> something is a bubble without any reasoning. Tell me something
> that ISN'T a bubble (for example, something that is increasing in
> price, just to make it a comparison) and why?
> I hope everyone notices the response to this, will yet again, be a
> nothing answer.
I don't think that you actually care, but the following article
describes the analytical method for determining a bubble:
** WSJ's page one story on Bernanke's Princeton 'Bubble Laboratory' is almost incoherent
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e080518
The problem with Bitcoin is that it has no history. The 1929 crash
was entirely predictable because it had many decades of history. The
1987 false panic was not a crash, as could be proven by applying the
analytical method to decades of data.
But in the case of Bitcoin, all we can do is compare it to other
values that had no history, and Tulipomania and the South Sea Bubble
are the obvious choices. Without historical data, and with a
parabolically increasing value, the burden of proof is on the side of
proving that it isn't a bubble, but it obviously is.
Of course I care, and I enjoy valid criticism, but you still leave that to the wayside. Why? Well, you want there to be a history to this "bubble" but you'll never know now, will you, if this is the beginning of something (like gold, the internet, fiat, credit cards, etc) HUGE that will indeed survive. So the history angle is folly. Everything has a starting point, so you can't use that as a negative element or proof of something being "a bubble". That logic alone would prove again that the only thing you could do is call things a bubble. Which is funny, it makes the whole conversation null and void, and preposterous, since you'd obviously be wrong ALL the times something wasn't a bubble. But losers can't pick the winners, so they call everything bubbles, or other names without any meaning.
Even saying that it doesn't have a history (which is untrue, it's been around now 12 years), it has far more history than any of the so called bubbles you have mentioned, in particular the stupid tulip example.
Your last statement not only is a logical fallacy, I'll prove it yet again - How do I prove to you that it is not a bubble?
Come on, you are better than this, that's logic 101 and the most utter foolishness.
By the way, gold has been quite volatile in the last year or so. Does that mean it's "useless as a store of value"? LOL.