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0 pointspashamur5y ago0 comments

Up compared to what? That's the key. The money printing is roughly synced between central banks (Europe is actually printing more), so the dollar is up relative to other currencies (since other countries have external debts in dollars and have a need for dollars).

If you look at dollars versus assets, gold, bitcoin, real estate - it's pretty clear that the dollar has lost significantly (it's just not obvious because all physical currency has depreciated in tandem)

The inflation that is happening is not happening in daily commodities - it's happening in the capital markets instead.

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bumby5y ago

Yes, good point. It was implied that the dollar is up compared to other currencies.

I'm not sure gold, bitcoin, and real estate are great comparisons because they are too volatile to use as a real currency benchmark. Real-estate and gold have intrinsic value, I'm not sure how to divorce that for an apples-to-apples comparison to fiat currency.

>The inflation that is happening is not happening in daily commodities - it's happening in the capital markets instead.

I'm curious on your perspective with this. I was under the (maybe wrong) assumption that central banks are more concerned with controlling inflation for commodities...i.e., those things in the CPI rather than stocks. Do you think it should matter to them if capital markets are inflated? Real instability happens when people can't buy bread not when they can't buy $AAPL

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bumby5y ago

Yes, good point. It was implied that the dollar is up compared to other currencies.

>The inflation that is happening is not happening in daily commodities - it's happening in the capital markets instead.

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