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Bitcoin To ‘Ignite’ After Labor Day, Warns Former Prudential CEO In Surprise Crypto Flip

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August 17, 2020
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Bitcoin To ‘Ignite’ After Labor Day, Warns Former Prudential CEO In Surprise Crypto Flip
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Bitcoin has made some serious headway into the traditional financial industry over the last six months or so—with some big-name investors giving it their backing.

The bitcoin price, after a period of inactivity, has surged over the last month, giving bitcoin newcomers and long-term holders fresh confidence in the digital currency.

Now, George Ball, the chief executive of investment firm Sanders Morris Harris and former chief executive of Prudential Securities, has changed his tune on bitcoin, switching from being a bitcoin “opponent” to an advocate—and warning people will begin turning to bitcoin after Labor Day on September 7.

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George Ball, a former Prudential chief executive and self-confessed bitcoin skeptic, has said he … [+] expects investors will turn to bitcoin as both a safe-haven and short-term speculative bet.

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“I’ve never said this before, but I’ve always been a blockchain, cryptocurrency, bitcoin opponent; but if you look right now, the government can’t stimulate the markets forever,” Ball said, speaking to the newswire Reuters in a video interview this week.

“So the very wealthy investor or the trader probably turns to bitcoin or something like it as a staple,” Ball told surprised Reuters anchor, Fred Katayama—who responded: “Wow, I never thought I’d hear you say something like that.”

Ball, a Wall Street star through the 1970s and ’80s, warned “traders and investors are going to worry about what happens when you can’t kick the can down the road in terms of stimulus or subsidizing people any longer.”

“The liquidity floods will end sooner or later,” Ball said, pointing to the huge “well-deserved and smart” stimulus the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve is currently providing markets and businesses in an attempt to offset the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

“The approach of the end of that road is going to be a lot closer by the fourth quarter than it is now and therefore both traders and investors should and probably will realign their portfolios substantially.”

Ball said he expects there to be a surge of bitcoin buying “after Labor Day”—branding current global markets as stuck in the “summer doldrums,” with investors waiting for “a spark” that he thinks will ignite in early September.

“The time to reposition portfolios is before the fuse is lit, or when the fuse has been lit but hasn’t exploded yet,” Ball said, adding the time is “probably now.”

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The bitcoin price has added almost 30% over the last month as investors piled into bitcoin and … [+] cryptocurrencies.

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Ball also named “Robinhooders,” users of the popular retail stock trading app Robinhood, as likely to have an affect on the bitcoin price.

“The notion isn’t to hide or to seek a tax refuge but to have something that can’t be undermined by the government and that won’t become worthless if the currency becomes worthless, or at least if enough Robinhooders happen to believe that,” Ball said.

“If the Robinhooders don’t want to trade stocks as they have, where are they going to put their money, there’s no yields today, so bitcoin, or another cryptocurrency, becomes a very attractive either long-term safe-haven or a short-term speculative bet.”

Stock market day-trading has surged in popularity during coronavirus lockdowns, with the likes of Barstool Sports blog founder Dave Portnoy finding huge success and massive audiences live streaming his trading sessions amid stimulus-fueled equity rallies.

Portnoy has recently turned to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, inviting the Winkelvoss twins, who created their own New York-based bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange back in 2014, to explain bitcoin to him.

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