Question: given the competing forces, what are your expectations for asset prices (houses, BTC, 'precious' metals) given these forces?
Non-exhaustive list of disparate forces:
- De-dollarization via petro-dollar
- De-dollarization via India, China, Russia et al re: SWIFT
- Inflation and potential hyper-inflation
- Rising interest rates (May and June, +.5% each inbound)
- BlackRock et al buying up massive amounts of properties
- Bill Gates et al buying up massive amounts of land
- Food shortages in the Fall of 2022, or at latest the Fall of '23
- Price-to-Income Ratio
- Wage stagnancy
- Utterly corrupt/inept reactive (not proactive) government
- Continued "Brrrr'ing"
- CBDCs and crypto regulation
- Dark Ages 2.0 (the wilful stupidification/propagandization of the populace)
In any logical world a recession and rising interest rates would lower house costs and raise other assets (BTC, gold, etc). However, this does not seem overly likely given the policy-rhetoric and the sheer number of competing +/- forces on pricing.
Thoughts?
WhatsApp, quick point: owned by FaceBook/Meta, I wouldn't count on this being a "safe" alternative in the near future, if not already.
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Question: given the competing forces, what are your expectations for asset prices (houses, BTC, 'precious' metals) given these forces?
Non-exhaustive list of disparate forces:
- De-dollarization via petro-dollar
- De-dollarization via India, China, Russia et al re: SWIFT
- Inflation and potential hyper-inflation
- Rising interest rates (May and June, +.5% each inbound)
- BlackRock et al buying up massive amounts of properties
- Bill Gates et al buying up massive amounts of land
- Food shortages in the Fall of 2022, or at latest the Fall of '23
- Price-to-Income Ratio
- Wage stagnancy
- Utterly corrupt/inept reactive (not proactive) government
- Continued "Brrrr'ing"
- CBDCs and crypto regulation
- Dark Ages 2.0 (the wilful stupidification/propagandization of the populace)
In any logical world a recession and rising interest rates would lower house costs and raise other assets (BTC, gold, etc). However, this does not seem overly likely given the policy-rhetoric and the sheer number of competing +/- forces on pricing.
Thoughts?
WhatsApp, quick point: owned by FaceBook/Meta, I wouldn't count on this being a "safe" alternative in the near future, if not already.