Scott Nations

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580 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 16 Jan

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It's more of a speculation.

I understand why it's happening and you can't ignore it, but I'm not certain it's going to be good for very many people's portfolios.

Well, it seems that it is another part of the gambling trend at large in the stock market and in the options market.

I mean, it seems as though, whether it's zero-day options, also perpetual futures, which we've been starting to hear more about,

these basically no expiration date futures where you can get like 20 or 100x leverage.

And they're exploding right now, especially on decentralized exchanges, specifically in crypto.

And obviously we've got the meme stock craze, obviously the prediction markets as well.

Are you concerned that this could lead us to some... I mean, obviously a lot of people are losing money probably on these trades, is my assumption.

But could this create something larger?

Is this...

a larger problem than people perhaps think it is right now?

Yeah, that's interesting.

So the book that I wrote before The Anxious Investor was A History of the U.S.

in Five Crashes.

I write about the five modern American stock market crashes.

And one thing I write about there is that each one is attended by a new novel financial contraption that injects leverage at the worst possible time.

So in 1987, it was portfolio insurance.

What could be better than portfolio insurance?

Well,

The way it was actually executed was horrible because it just drove the stock market nearly down to zero.

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