The thing with bubbles is that people have gotten impressively good at keeping them going. Even if built on pure nonsense, when there's a capital surplus a bubble that provides avenues for profitable speculation (and/or grifting) can just keep on running on the power of that alone. (Bitcoin still exists, for Christ's sake.)

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