Correct. They really should rename it the S&P 6.
Prices, Inflation/Deflation, Interest Rates & The Fed
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Correct. They really should rename it the S&P 6.
Yes, younger people, who're much less risk averse due to age/still got a lot of time to get back on their feet in case of devastating loss.
Yes, this is very off-putting factor for an average person. (I have education in relevant engineering field).
Life is getting way too complicated and dependent on internet and electricity... digital money, digital ID, digital government services, next is digital loo and digital soup I guess.
Personally, would keep only 1-5% in bitcoin, as the other person mentioned.
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I was a crypto moderate and have posted its down-sides in the BTC thread for years, but being long-term bullish on the space. The shift since 2020 has changed things, particularly my experience of nearly loosing most of my life savings due to the ever increasing centrally planned banking regulation; and further research into it. Their future is only digitally money, where the purpose of every transaction will be centrally stored. The KYC mountains are being used as weapons to get financial institutions and people to submit to streamlined total control-grid currencies. You won't be uploading scans of bills or bank statements, you will be giving permissions to your toploaded vaxx pass to have access to those things. For what's was going on a few years ago - https://crackedlabs.org/en/corporate-surveillance
Then with the new financial era that begun with the plandemic, economies can no longer exist without the money printer. The up side of that is if you have been heavily in stocks for years, you are fluffed and will be fluffed until it crashes. But for those who don't have stocks, there is no easy entry point. On top of that, we know fiat is now going down. I saw a video with Saylor, in which he raised an interesting prospect. That in the not to distant future there will only be a relative handful fiat currencies standing. The likes of the TRY, COP and NGN could be on their way out. And Bitcoin could be one of the most logical places for inflation victims to seek refuge. If central banks can keep a ponzi scheme propped up with constant-inflation for 100+ years, I don't see why there can't be a known quantity like BTC that can act as a generally agreed upon store of value.
All assets have pros and cons. Some of crypto's best pros are that it is difficult to seize, is permissionless and you can take billions across borders without being detected. With all that the cartel are up to, those are the properties I am looking for. Not big clunky bars, or digits on a screen that could go to zero. I think it's clear that the battle of our age is decentralisation vs. centralisation - in all spheres - banking, governance, health, media, finance, food...
As for comments that BTC is too hard to use - yes. Most people will need to have their crypto held for them. The Lightning Network has changed a lot for Bitcoin, transforming it from a clunky, technical and inadequate coin, to a potential legacy banking killer. It's already eviscerating the banking vultures in the far-right, abortion-free dictatorship of El Salvador
Last point on crypto. Make a 5% allocation when it dumps out. Say, Jan 2023+. The likelihood is it will end up being 50%+ of your net worth.
I believe most of the giants of today's market will be considerably smaller if not bankrupt by the time we are leaving this coil. The cities they operate from will end up being some new version of Detroit, Baltimore or St. Louis, i.e. centres of commerce reduced to the worst places in LatAm.
This thread was started in Aug 2020. The Economist looks like it should be hiring some of you guys.
Just imagine not being able to see inflation in the official numbers all year.
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I just downloaded the Strike app. The lightning network paired with a simple app is a game changer.
It cost me under 1 cent to send $185 worth of BTC to a friend in Europe I owed.
Only countries that can use it right now are United States and El Salvador. I think it'll be like worldwide Venmo in a few years.
It cost me under 1 cent to send $185 worth of BTC to a friend in Europe I owed.
Only countries that can use it right now are United States and El Salvador. I think it'll be like worldwide Venmo in a few years.
WE'RE RUNNING HOT HOT HOT!*
*Please don't look at the date.
*Please don't look at the date.
That is because of the "exorbitant privilege" to quote Charles de Gaulle, of owning the reserve currency... The US can effectively export its inflation everywhere else, with much more muted domestic consequences. The greatest trick in monetary history was going from an asset backed (gold) currency to one that is backed by US government debt... Which is treated as the most pristine collateral in the world. Think about it for more than 5 seconds... It is ludicrous but due to the wealth and post war power of the US, the rest of the world had no choice. Governments and banks around the world had to buy our debt if they wanted a seat at the table. That is going to change.
The End Of Super Imperialism
How the U.S. succeeded in turning the dream of monetary imperialism into our current inequitable reality, and how Bitcoin offers a new standard.
bitcoinmagazine.com
You don’t have to use Strike if in a censored country…Muun wallet you can use on-chain BTC and send to LN wallets and it has a LN wallet itself (Strike is good if you need it in fiat though.)
Now that they all admit that inflation isn't transitory, shouldn't we see the naysayers and doubters here owning up to it?
I keep wondering why it's so hard for people to admit that they believe, pretty far out, things will get deflationary, but for now the proof is here on multiple levels.
I keep wondering why it's so hard for people to admit that they believe, pretty far out, things will get deflationary, but for now the proof is here on multiple levels.
"...hike prices by 20% in January..."
Inflation may actually get back down now that the Fed has made it a priority over employment. They have the means to do it, but something might break in the process (credit markets, 2018 style)
Today Jerome Powell, recently re appointed to his job called an end to the word "transitory". It seems to me that in knowing he had another mandate, he knew he had to come clean about the reality of the situation. If someone else was brought on, then that job would be theirs and Powell wouldn't need to walk back his ridiculous position of months past?
The Fed Admits It Has Lost Control - Zero Hedge
The Fed Admits It Has Lost Control - Zero Hedge
Hopefully this will get people to stop buying General Mills garbage. This company is openly anti-family and promoting the homosexual agenda to kids. It is an extremely sick corporation. Also, oatmeal is cheaper, more filling, and healthier than most cereals (buy generic, avoid Quaker Oats as well)."...hike prices by 20% in January..."
The holiday season has collapsed and the stock market is facing renewed pressure while real estate cools. Nearly every price dislocation has either reversed or halted.
I'd really like to know what it is you all watch for markets or data. That is aside from @Arado's Offical Jordan Peterson Twitter Inflation Indicator.
This thread needs more hard facts and less propaganda.
The last patient (boomer) I saw yesterday told me I need to "speak the truth", and then proceeded to ramble on for 20 minutes about how important it is to be vaccinated. He had been in the military, and was "injected with enough shit to turn his skin green". Hard facts do not matter to these people. Only what they see & hear on the television.
Inflation is here and will never stop!!!! The Sky is falling!!!! Buy!!!! Buy!!!!! Buy....oil at $60 a barrel?????? That's hyper-inflationary MADNESS!!!!!!
/sarc
For you big brains, if all that mattered was the money supply in prices you wouldn't see drops since they aren't REMOVING anything from the M charts, are they?
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For you big brains, if all that mattered was the money supply in prices you wouldn't see drops since they aren't REMOVING anything from the M charts, are they?
Let me know when we get to 2019 prices…
Even after the Fed admission, amongst all the data, @EndlessGravity is still at this?