Douglas_Knight comments on Mathematicians and the Prevention of Recessions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 25 May 2013 05:07:48AM 5 points [-]

Yes, people who short are usually loud about it. The sooner people agree with them, the sooner the bubble pops.

Comment author: SilasBarta 26 May 2013 09:28:18PM 0 points [-]

Which, FWIW, is what happened. The question is, "why didn't it happen sooner?" with perhaps a follow-up of "what's the soonest we can reasonably expect these things to happen?"