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What does the EMH have to do with the financial crisis?



EMH claims that marked prices always reflect reality, so the housing bubble of 2000-2007 (with house prices rising at twice the rate as rents) whose bursting caused the financial crisis ought to be impossible.


Chairman Greenspan thought that banks would behave rationally, and that is a portion in EMH theory.




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