After popular investor and hedge fund manager Michael Burry sounded the alarm over an AI bubble forming, a popular economist has gone ahead and warned investors about a crypto bubble ahead too.
Burry, founder of Scion Asset Management, gained popularity when he correctly predicted the housing market collapse in 2007-08 and shorted subprime mortgages.
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The event that led to the 2008 financial crisis in the U.S. and then spread across the globe is the subject of the Hollywood film The Big Short (2015), in which actor Christian Bale played Burry.
However, the 2008 housing market collapse isn’t the only episode when Burry shorted overvalued sectors, sensing bubble bursts ahead. For instance, he shorted overvalued tech stocks before the dot-com bubble crash in 2000.
He also issued warnings against the passive ETF “everything bubble” in 2019 and meme stocks and crypto leverage in 2021.
Michael Burry, former head of Scion Capital Group LLC, works in his office in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Monday, Sept. 6, 2010.
Now, Burry has cautioned against an AI bubble forming and, in particular, singled out Nvidia (Nasdaq: NVDA), Meta (Nasdaq: META), Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), and Palantir Technologies (Nasdaq: PLTR).
Following Burry’s warning, economist Peter Schiff has warned about a crypto bubble ahead.
A longtime Bitcoin critic and co-founder of Euro Pacific Asset Management, he said Bitcoin HODLers and crypto investors will suffer “staggering” losses.
“More money will be lost in this bubble than was lost when the dot-com bubble popped.”
An “even bigger” AI bubble is going to burst anyway, he added.
Recently, he said that the entire crypto sector is getting “decimated” and the “carnage is far from over.”
“Sell Bitcoin now!”
A pseudonymous crypto market analyst known as “Trader Deltan” also predicted that Bitcoin could very well see a 50% correction.