Beware peddlers of Armageddon

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Via FTAlphaville:

In the summer of 2018, Alphaville observed that there seemed to be a paradoxical bull market in being bearish.

Since the financial crisis and the ensuing rise to fame of the investors who called — and profited significantly from — it (Bass, Burry, Eisman, Paulson, Gross et al.) there have been almost constant calls for a repeat of Armageddon.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.