# Professor David Yermack is interviewed about bitcoin's growth

1 Faculty News May 27, 2017 ![WIRED logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032348.jpg?itok=Wszefc-R)>

Excerpt from [WIRED](https://www.wired.com/2017/05/bitcoin-come-roaring-back-risks/) -- "'But do you really expect to keep seeing returns of 200 to 300 percent?' says [David Yermack](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack), a New York University professor of finance. 'You'd have to have all the wealth in the world in bitcoin to keep that up.' In other words, past performance is not indicative of future results."

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