The printing money bit doesn't really have any negative impact when everyone is doing it. The other thing is that if it's supported by real growth then it's also fairly stable. That's the assumption.
But anyways to see any kind of real inflation you need unilateral action and shrinking economy. Those things were true for Germany, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.
Currencies only devalue against other currencies. When they all increase output nothing really happens. As long as there's decent inequality nothing happens to the price of milk. There's no significant increase with the price of consumer goods because demand itself is fairly stable and printing to a degree counters loss of income or is just feeding the asset bubble. Most of the time when a trillion is printed about 3 dollars goes to excess milk.
The purchasing power of the dollar goes down about 10% a year.
What do u buy that's cheaper?
I do not know if BTC is where capital goes to fade devaluation, but it is an indisputable fact inflation and asset prices are going up as they print this money.
So far, capital is going to BTC as a safe haven from currency devaluation. Whether or not this continues, who knows. It is undeniable this is what has thus far happened. There is no debate.
Are you smoking crack? Where are you getting that the purchasing power of the dollar goes down 10% per year? At that rate we'd all be living in the forests after a few years.
Here's US inflation since 1990. Take a look at the period since the Great Recession, which is the period when we've been "printing all this money." Inflation is LOW. https://www.statista.com/statistics/...sa-since-1990/
The Fed's stated goal is to target about 2% inflation per year. Looks like they've been doing pretty well.
You also are not taking into account that inflation is partially offset but rising incomes and by improved quality of many consumer goods that you can buy at comparable prices. For example you can buy a laptop for $1,000 20 years ago or spend the same amount of money today and get a far better product.
I'm not saying that things are cheaper. I'm saying inflation is not a problem right now and although nobody can predict the future it's not likely to become a problem in the near term.
If it really does become a problem, LOL if you think putting a significant portion of your assets in bitcoin is going to save them. If inflation spikes (which it won't), the cure will be an increase in interest rates, which the Fed did to successfully tame inflation in the late 1970s. Short-term pain, but it worked. And if that happens, you're going to want assets denominated in USD. Those 30 year treasury bonds that nobody buys now will look a lot better when they return 10% rather than 3%.
The people who think there's some magic asset class that will protect you from some coming apocalypse (inflation or otherwise) are no different than any other silly conspiracy theorist. Why are people willing to call someone a "doomer" if they are careful about Covid but not apply the same label people who think the economy is going to collapse and the only way out will be to hold BTC/gold/guns/whatever? They've been saying this for decades.
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1913 $100 was about $3.87 in 2019. Average salary was about $750 a year in 1913 and about 40k in 2019. So the 1913 dollar is about 1/26, but salaries in 2019 are 53x. Ratio of median household income has gone up even more. The end result is that Americans get 2-3x as much shit now than a century ago.
Now obv productivity has gone to the moon in that century, but consumers still reap some benefits out of it. Kids carry devices in their pocket that have 100k times the computational power that was used in the first moon landing.
Dollars don't treat BTC as a safe haven. It's just another speculative asset. There are 3rd world countries where crypto functions a bit like a safe haven. Mostly because their currency and banking system is even more volatile. For emerging markets it has some value in hiding assets.
For dollars it's bonds, gold and whatever you think is too big to fail. Global names if you're afraid dollar might crater in an event that wouldn't touch rest of the world. Loss of reserve currency status would be that event. Currently it's not in EU's or China's best interest. Another 4 years of Trump might have gotten you there. With Biden nah. He might need two terms to fix Trumps one.
There's been some chatter towards US heading more to renters economy that's a sign of late stage capitalism.
I looked at median income to median house prices ratio in the last 50 years and nothing out of the ordinary popped up there. It's been in the 3-4 region forever.
Millennials were something like 32% for new homeowners around 2016 and it was the lowest for a while. Is it just the cost of education and credit costs in general or something else? I didn't look too deep.
There's obv some outliers like parts of California and NY where income to property ratio is something silly like 100-1 that didn't exist before in such large areas, but that's not enough to move the whole country.
I'm too lazy to look up everything, so any ideas? Medical costs, insurance models in general and/or something else? What are the outliers? Why are millennials fucked?
I don't think myself that Millenials are fucked at all, but as a whole Generation they were raised differently. My mom and dad Baby boomers didn't even ever have a computer, let alone in schools. Now its a must have and given out. Times are just different now when the Millenial generation came along. And they tend to enjoy a more computer generated world, or easier then maybe the Baby Boomers. The problem is if you become too dependent on the technology entirely you do sort of cheat your own self of some more meaningful self attributes maybe. But back to the point MIllenials aren't fucked at all, they just came up at a time the whole world was very Tech savvy, and sort of dependent on that. They dont necessarily know the 'Hammer and Nail' type of Generation I dont think.
And they lean more Liberal, if not Libertarian. And this is also why long-run I really do think the Republican Party here in America is in a dire point now. Millennials are never going to be Republicans as a whole Generation, not a chance in hell. They are most likely of course Liberal leaners if not all out Libertarians (like Micon lol..) but yeah now im digressing, I have to shower but I have a lot more to say on this one but I Have to think about it in the more now, ill be back in a bit haha..
Oh and im a 41 year old actually from what I understand one of the first few monthers born into Gen-X too, the first couple months in 1979. When I see the entire Generation of the Millenials and compare them to what I know, or saw. Its just so fundamentally different, as is what I saw compared to my parents, Boomers.
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Looks like the world isn't ready for the $60k bitcoin just yet.
Markets are all always 'Cyclical' as is Bitcoin. The peaks and Valleys and how high or low will depend greatly of course on a, whollle lotta real world variables..
What is going on here with Bitcoin now, is just a Consolidation of sorts. Some Regression should have been expected here at some point. Again because all Market's 'Cycle' right. Nothing ever goes, actually directly uphill as many seem to wish in the shorter-Term. So this here, is profit pulling, and probably some consolidation. You probably have some of the HODLER's or original early adopters not liking the fact now known that is really is Wall St and Professional 'Asset Classes' and people getting in now. And to some, a lot of things going on may ruin what they always thought, Bitcoin Wise. Incorrectly we now see, and this recent Price Spike in 2021 is totally, now understood to be Wall St and the Professional's buying in now.
And with that will now forever, which Bitcoin never has had before, create a more Stable and high obviously Bitcoin price moving forward now =).....
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The Bull run or 'Rally' isn't over yet Druff.. This is just a consolidation, and some profit pulling happening here. As should be expected with such a massive run up Bitcoin is NOT done rising yet either. This Bull run is not done yet, it's just a consolidation and some profit pulling happening now. All indications and fundamentals are actually pointing to another BULL run here coming, and it will be up toward 70k this time maybe 75k. After that and depending on many things, next is 100k. Now realistically there is some headwinds possible the U.S and Over Regulation is one for sure, but that does seem like it is on the Horizon imo at all, if anything Janet Yellen seems very intent on cleaning the crypto space up now moving forward, and that imo will help Bitcoin value sum total.
Real inflation, not fake. The fed/governments definition of inflation is LOL: http://www.shadowstats.com/ . You have commuted the "appeal to authority" logical fallacy
BTC won't save us from anything (financial apocalypse, doom, etc) as seen when there are liquidity issues, BTC is liquidated as well. I never claimed it would. You have created the "straw man" fallacy.
Interest rates can't rise bc it would pop a big debt bubble. I don't know what fallacy you committed here other than to say they can't raise rates bc there is too much corporate and municipal and federal debt. It would be an unmitigated disaster. How do we know this? Their refusal to raise them, their talks of YCC, the fact they (the fed) buys 120 billion dollars a month in treasuries, etc, etc, etc...
I do not think and did not argue the economy is going to collapse. Congrats, you straw manned again.
So let's start over:
The thesis is BTC is a hedge against a devaluation of the currency and the printing of USD. Let me be very clear: THIS IS NOT IN DISPUTE. THIS IS THE THESIS.
Is it true, I don't know but corporations are buying BTC to hedge against the depreciating asset that is cash. How do we know this? The CEOs told us (Elon, Saylor) and the market told us because the markets when evaluating a company will not give u 1 for 1 for cash on hand in their evaluation of a companies value. How do we know this, again these CEOs have told us.
Nothing I stated is an opinion. It is all fact. Is it true that BTC is a hedge against run away inflation and a devalued currency?
There are at least 2 (maybe 3) people I know for sure that are ** BILLIONAIRES ** from crypto in the poker world.
Time will tell. At some point it becomes possible the crypto billionaires in poker were right and you are a fucking idiot.
You are the worst arguer I've ever seen. You can't keep making up arguments that people that don't make and post gifs refuting these imaginary arguments.
If you don't own bitcoin you are effectively shorting it. Think about how fucking stupid that looks over the past 10 years.
Uh... Referencing the opinion of a single source who uses his website to promote his “expert” market advice service is a classic example of commiting the “appeal to authority” logical fallacy, and that’s assuming that this single source is a credible expert and not a pseudo-expert who has found a niche for his self-promoted “expert” advice.
Can Druff upload a GIF of Micon or NeverWinPoker.com and sell it for big money?
So I have been building up a balance playing online poker, which of course is a good thing. I hadn't cashed out just because bitcoin was unstable. So I decided this morning was the right time. Seemed to be going back up, and was sitting around 56k and change.
I did a large cashout.
I went to sleep.
Woke up and bitcoin was 52k.
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