We can go further than that too: when the world was warmer than now we did not see massive positive feedback effects which led to catastrophic global warming.

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Schramm clearly intended to tap on the brakes a little, but just as the positive feedback of investor psychology inflated the stock price on the upside, negative feedback exaggerated the negative effects on the downside.

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