are we near a minky moment of financial crisis 
a search of academic journal and newspaper databases shows that prognosticators are seemingly always working on articles about how the present is perhaps ripe for a minsky moment that doesn t make these analysts wrong after all minsky thought this was to be a period of instability here we review some major recent events that brought minsky to mind for some starting in about 2017 experts issued warnings of an approaching minsky moment in china as debt levels increased while equity values kept up their bullish trend the chinese government warned investors of an impending crisis or minsky moment if debt levels continued to rise 