What are the odds that we are really heading towards another financial crisis?
We have every indication to believe that after a 10 year bull run on the stock market, it is time for a collapse.
In case you missed it, the collapse already happened this February and the market is still struggling to recover from it.
I have every reason to believe this and feel the crisis in 2008 was only a light taste for what is coming. This time many governments will not be able to save the failing businesses or banks due to their massive depths.
Do also some research on the Great Depression and you will find striking similarities to where we are now. Artificially low interest rates for years, inflated stock market and a recently started trade
Financial institutions are aware of these risk and look for alternative asset classes in case the stock market collapses and we head into a bear market and financial collapse.
Financial crisis of 2008 happened, because there were lots of investors interested in buying shares of mortgages, so companies that gave the mortgages on houses were lowering the standards and encouraging people with low income. As housing prices were growing, it seemed like these investments were completely secure. As prices were rising, people with debts couldn't pay for them anymore, so they were forced to give their houses away. The problem was that there was no demand for these houses anymore, so prices started to explode. I think the key problem was that there were too many figures there investing in less and less real products. House buyers had mortgages. Individual mortgages were combined and sold as shares to investors. Then there were also credit default swaps (insurances in case mortgages fail, but these insurance companies actually didn't have the budget to cover the damage) and investors into these insurances!
People were taking more risks than they naturally would, because they thought that other institutions are going to cover those risks.
Cryptocurrencies mainly have their own projects, products and partners. Moreover, they don't depend on anything apart from prosperous human society. The is also no net of insurances over insurances or stocks over stocks. I think we're safe here.