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Right. Raise your hand if you were surprised to see this happen.

So yesterday when it was Coinbase [0] announcing cuts the reaction was, 'ha ha crypto bad', 'worst of luck to them' and now when it also affects companies like Tesla, now the reaction is 'Shocking', 'everyone is doing it now', 'I wouldn't read much into it. A 10% cut is completely normal and healthy for a company the size of Tesla.'

This to me sounds like some form of cope that many thought the market was always going up forever.

The recent market rally of 2020 had to come to an end.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505

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Quick recession, then back to the market always going up. And for longer time spans, it has always gone up.

> And for longer time spans, it has always gone up.

Mostly because of utterly insane injections of cash into the economy, whether by unsafe lending practices creating money out of thin air (which ended up causing 2008ff) or by the central banks creating money out of thin air and buying up assets.

Now, especially after two years of pandemic-related bailouts, there's no government whose balance sheet hasn't been hit hard... governments can't take up more debt to inject into the economy, and the central banks cannot because inflation is already skyrocketing across the world.

Additionally, the people are fed up with social inequality worldwide - they saw that a lot of wealth was redistributed from the bottom to the top stock owners over the last two years. It may very well be that governments shift focus from propping up the stock markets to preventing social unrest, not to mention climate change which is bound to send a lot of companies' worth towards the bottom as their business model becomes outdated (e.g. car manufacturers, oil/gas companies).

Depends on what 'quick' is: 1 week?, 1 month?, 1 year? It's possible for that to happen but I doubt it will be that quick. My suspicion tells me it may be longer than expected and as always, the market needs to go down first before it rises up, hence why I said the 2020 market rally had to end some day.

The startups who are paranoid of the markets and prepare in advance for profitability will continue to survive and the startups constantly raising money each week and making little to no revenue will be caught swimming naked when the market retraces. Fast is a prime example of this.

We could have another dotcom style crash and it may take another 3 - 4 years to get back to the same all time highs again where that is still possible.

I’m not sure. How will the government make the recovery short when inflation is still at 8%? They can’t QE to kick the can down the road in this environment without making inflation 10+%

I wouldn’t be surprised if we just go sideways for a year or two in the market as fed tries to balance inflation and growth to get out of the Covid bubble without a disaster

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