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Yoga instructor selling her house to throw it into bitcoin feels like the '21 spiritual successor of the Las Vegas stripper who owned several condos/houses that became the '08 housing market crash meme.

Wild prediction: this BTC crash pops the USDT bubble, cratering crypto in general. TSLA holders (frequently BTC/doge buyers themselves) begin to panic sell, triggering an ARKK bank run. ARKK implosion sparks wide selloff of big tech stocks (essentially their holdings) which depresses the S&P (where tech is the main driver of growth). Everyone is now forced to be conservative; cost to borrow skyrockets; demand chills, and coupled with supply chain disruptions and high commodity and materials costs, some businesses begin to fail. New homeowners who went for broke to buy at the top of their market are immediately underwater, and some of them are now losing their jobs. Fed is now between a rock and a hard place - needs to raise to interest rates but also needs to encourage spending - what to do?

Anyway, there is my daily dose of doom-and-gloom, and I have a vague understanding of any of it, so enjoy.



So what's your portfolio breakdown?


Pretty much all (90+%) equities. Not a whole lot of alternatives.




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