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Outstanding roll-up.

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Apr 22, 2022·edited Apr 22, 2022

Excellent!

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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