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Ai bubble, economy in the trash already, inflation from tariffs. Dollar might get real cheap when big holders start selling stocks and exchanging it, nobody wants to be left holding their bag, and they have a lot of dollars.

Which is their (Thiel, project2025, etc) plan, federal land will be sold for cheap.

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Selling stocks for what? If the dollar is going down the toilet, the last thing you want to have is piles of rapidly evaporating cash.

Never totally discount _deflationary_ scenarios.

based on my understanding of what all the financial pros are saying: they'll never let that happen. they'll inflate away to the moon before they allow for a deflationary bust. that's why everyone's in equities in the first place. it's almost insured, at this point.

They've been trying. ZIRP was a whole decade of giving unlimited free money to the rich and it still didn't work.

Free money to the poor would raise inflation but they'd never do that because the poor would have more money.

For other currencies, sell stocks, get USD, sell USD to buy currencies appreciating over the USD.

It's already happening, past 6 months USD has been losing value against EUR, CHF, GBP, even BRL and almost flat against the JPY which was losing a ton of value the past years.

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