As reported TheGuardian.com, Roubini is predicting a huge Bitcoin collapse at some point in the future. Because he's of the persuasion that Bitcoin is favored by "charlatans and swindlers," Roubini is convinced that, one day, it will drop "all the way down to zero."
He hinges this belief on the recent drop in Bitcoin's price, as it plummeted from nearly $20,000 per coin back in December to under $8,000 just a few weeks ago. It has since steadily risen to back over $10,000, as have Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash, all of which saw similar declines right alongside Bitcoin.
Some have dubbed Roubini as "Dr. Doom" for his apocalyptic view of Bitcoin's future, which also takes into account the increasing government crackdowns on Bitcoin in places like Asia. China has been working overtime to try to put a stop to Chinese Bitcoin traders, as has India, which recently announced plans to "eliminate" Bitcoin entirely.
"Policymakers and regulators are getting worried," Roubini says. "Pretty much every G20 policymaker is talking about a crackdown. We can't allow it to become the next Swiss bank account for use by criminals and people evading tax."
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All cryptocurrencies are a "scam," claims Roubini
Though they create an opportunity for decentralized trade without government interference, cryptocurrencies in general aren't something that Roubini wants anything to do with. In his view, they're all a "scam," and most of them, he says, "are even worse [than Bitcoin] and don't have any intrinsic value like Bitcoin."
No matter who developed them or what they were developed for, all cryptocurrencies are a speculative bubble, in Roubini's opinion. Just like the infamous "dot-com" bust and the United States sub-prime mortgage scam orchestrated by big banks and the Federal Reserve, cryptocurrencies are all on the verge of collapse, according to Roubini.
Echoing this sentiment in less dire terms is Robert Shiller, a Nobel prize-winning economist, who stated recently that, while Bitcoin is a "really clever idea," it's still just an "experiment" that's "not a permanent feature of our lives." He stated this at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland – a who's who gathering of globalist central planners.
At the current time, no private central banks recognize Bitcoin as a valid currency – and why would they, seeing as how Bitcoin represents currency competition? This would explain why many have likened Bitcoin's use to criminality, money laundering, and tax evasion as a scare tactic.
India's head of finance played the criminality card recently in explaining why his country does not recognize cryptocurrencies, period. He stated that their use represents "illegitimate activities," and called into question how they could ever be used as legal tend.
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook empire is taking a similar stance, having recently enacted a policy of blanket prohibition against all forms of cryptocurrency advertising on its platform. Ol' Zuck, as per Facebook's new policy statement, believes that ads associated with Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency almost always represent "misleading or deceptive promotional practices."
Even the Trump administration seems to be moving in this direction, as U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin recently signaled that Bitcoin will soon face great regulatory scrutiny here on the domestic front.
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