“It's Giving Enron - by Dave Karpf”

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving-enron

> the AI bubble isn’t predominantly giving off Pets.com or Global Crossing vibes anymore. It’s giving Enron vibes

Been saying this for a while. They're gonna Enron this shit until it explodes all over us

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

The Future, Now and Then
@baldur a lot of people are saying this - it's been on the media for weeks now, I can't quite understand this dynamic of everyone knowing it's a scam, but no one divesting - is it simply because they can't?

@nebogeo @baldur

I think it was @davidgerard who said a potential issue is that people think there’s nowhere else for investment funds to go. The bubble is the only game in town.

@rubenerd @baldur @davidgerard great situation! I'm wondering if there has been a historical precedent for this - most crashes have been fairly unforeseen if I remember correctly (everyone of course says they were obvious in retrospect, naturally)
@nebogeo @rubenerd @davidgerard Well, I have to disagree. Most major crashes over the past 50 years were thoroughly warned about in advance. Savings and loans crisis. Japanese real estate bubble. Dot-com. 2008. There's tons of records of economists, bankers, even legislators warning about those bubbles, waving concrete evidence of systemic risks. They get a couple of pieces in the news one night and then get drowned out by the constant drumbeat of irrational exuberance.

@baldur @nebogeo @rubenerd @davidgerard this is so very true — a *lot* of people know, and even more pretend they don’t but really did. I worked at Bloomberg during both the 2008 financial crisis and the Madoff ponzi crash. There was a *lot* of shortsighted strategic looking the other way going on.

Folks did, I think, underestimate how intertwingled everything was, and while they expected a drawdown they didn’t expect catastrophe. Like, y’know… now.