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Apr 23, 2021
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1) Crypto speculation could be good for the real economy.

There are a number of ways that financial speculation can be bad for the real economy. The first is that when people and institutions borrow money to buy financial assets and then those assets crash, it can do grievous damage to the real economy — it forces financial institutions to slow down or h…

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