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> Asset inflation has been raging for at least a decade, maybe 2, inflating stock assets, housing and commodities, bitcoin In the US maybe, in the UK the FTSE1
by u678u 6y ago
> Asset inflation has been raging for at least a decade, maybe 2, inflating stock assets, housing and commodities, bitcoin
In the US maybe, in the UK the FTSE100 has been pretty flat for over twenty years. Yes houses have gone up a lot, do you really think that can continue? Commodities are flat in the last few decades.
- grey-area 6y agoNo I don't think the asset bubble can or will continue indefinitely, hence the last sentence above. Re commodities Gold has risen a lot in the last couple of decades.
- Temporarily21 6y agoSo hodl gold&silver for economic protection?
- grey-area 6y agoHistorically those have not been great bets to hedge against a crash - they tend to crash with stock prices. See 2008 for an example.
- Temporarily21 6y agoBut they do hedge against inflation, right? i assume that’s what the next crash might look like.