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OR governments have demonstrated that they can take extreme decisions without warning, so businesses price accordingly. If you operate in this economy with unst
by eastbound 3y ago
OR 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