I know they're printing crazy amounts of money, to stave off the inflation, but that will just crowd out private investment and cause the economy to run even colder, not hotter, overall. Expect asset and consumer goods/services prices to go down 📉, as the "Strohfeuer" (straw fire 🔥) they are igniting quickly burns out.

You cannot solve a collapsing economy and a shrinking, aging, lazy demographic of people who don't breed and can't read, by throwing more money at it. That money has nowhere to go.

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On the plus side, cheap sats, and I might end up a whole coiner, after all.

Hoping that myself… if it stays around $84k I should get there by the fall … DCA and cold storage :)

Best line all week…….

….a shrinking, aging, lazy demographic of people who don't breed and can't read…..

Sums up my feelings on almost everyone I’ve interacted with today 😂

>...they're printing crazy amounts of money, to stave off the inflation...

Huh?

Sorry, typo. Should read "to stave off the DEFLATION".

Okay, everyone is staring at me like I'm confused, but think about it this way:

The economy is collapsing.

They want to inject it with cash, to push it up, again, at least in nominal terms, so that they can cover their debts with cheaper money.

But the inflation trend is ↘️. They keep trying to hype it up, by announcing "whatever it takes", but the market just hears "economy ded, we're panicking, everyone shut down production and fire your workers".

See that? Energy is getting cheaper. The price spike was due to the Ukriane war causing a temporary supply crunch. Consumption of energy collapsed down, to meet the higher prices, and now the price lowered to consumption. Higher prices solved higher prices.

And the war is still on. Once it ends, there will be a supply glut and the price will collapse further. That is why they want to redirect energy to highly consumptive projects like defense and infrastructure.

Crazy plan, hear me out…how about, no war?

Well, they actually depleted their stocks with this war, so they could spend trillions just restocking, for years.

It's not going to be sufficient, tho. The economy is too sluggish and exhausted. Nobody wants to take on credit, just to build things they can't sell, and they don't have the workers to build it all, anyway, and the customers are dying off.

But Rheinmetall shares are a good bet, at least.

I think Elon's preoccupation with demographics is why he wants to radically shrink the government.

sad to hear he's not doing it out of principle.

That is out of principle.

US broad money supply is shrinking. This is deflation.

Even the M1 shows a mixed story, at best. Here, the 10 year.

My understanding is the economy has been shrinking, the Biden admin printed a shit-ton of money to prop it up, and now that it’s dried up, and DOGE is cutting the slush funds, the money supply is down, and we’re getting deflation. BUT they are letting this happen intentionally because they need to show the Fed inflation is not the risk it was and to force them to lower rates to re-finance the debt that’s coming due. Once that happens, massive print. Right now it’s the tide of the tsunami going out. It will come rushing in soon IMO.

exactly. And I even bet rates increase if fed decides to go rouge.

And that might easily happen when Powell thinks he's gonna be replaced

Shit...