"At times he has remarked that he sees Bitcoin not as an alternative to gold but more as resembling the tulip mania bubble.Schiff's warnings of a coming economic collapse earned him the moniker "Dr. Doom", but later articles in "Business Week" and other business news journals reported that Schiff "more or less accurately" predicted the financial crisis of 2007–2010 while the "easiest criticism of macroeconomists is that nearly all failed to foresee the recession despite plenty of warning signs."