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As they say, never waste a good crisis.
by wpietri 3y ago
As they say, never waste a good crisis.
- eastbound 3y agoOR governments have demonstrated that they can take extreme decisions without warning, so businesses price accordingly. If you operate in this economy with unstable decision-making, then it creates margins to prepare padding. Even if all businesses were cash-flow-positive during Covid, the environment is still more unstable.
- hartator 3y agoThis. If govs can print out 2x the money supply in a few years, you want to “cash out” profits as fast as possible instead of reinvesting them.
- cmdli 3y agoHuh? Wouldn’t you want to reinvest in a real asset like a business instead of holding cash that inflates away?
- hartator 3y agoWhat is the point of sweating more in your business when just parking your money in real-estate and stocks will provide you more money? Might as well as raise prices, work less, and extract more money to these passive assets.
- soperj 3y agoFederal reserve is independent of government.
- mrchucklepants 3y agoIn name only.
- nameless_prole 3y ago[dead]
- ClumsyPilot 3y ago> extreme decisions without warning As opposed to previous decades where we only invaded several countries and started a few wars. Or the decades prior US had the draft to send young men against their wilk to fight a war in vietnam. Or the war with china in Korea. Or wolld war? This is amongst the calmest decades in terms of government actions
- Scoundreller 3y agoCrisitunity!