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After years of abstraction, things are getting real for markets

History cautions that the end of extreme bubbles does not augur well for those arriving last to the party

The writer is an adjunct lecturer at William & Mary and the author of an upcoming book on confidence-driven decision-making

2021 was a year that will be long-remembered for retail investors’ flash-mobbing of “meme stocks” thanks to social media sites like Reddit and online trading platforms like Robinhood.

The rocket ship emojis and popular trends that included trading in non-fungible tokens of cartoon bored apes were manifestations of a deep-running trend towards extreme abstraction. From spacs, to cryptocurrencies, to NFTs, to Web3 and the metaverse, what investors wanted most were things that, well, were difficult to explain.

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