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The Permanent Distortion Theory
The Permanent Distortion Theory
Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
“This time it’s different” is supposed to be the dumbest phrase in investing.
It’s the phrase people use right before they get obliterated. It was the rallying cry of dot-com lunatics buying companies with no revenue in 1999. It was the intellectual foundation of housing perma-bulls in 2006 who believed home prices could only go up because, apparently, Americans had collectively decided real estate was immune mathematical reality.
It’s typically what people say when they’re trying to justify paying absurd prices for dogshit assets...
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