• KevonLooney
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    2 months ago

    No.

    The dollar has recently been stronger against the Euro, Pound, Yuan, Ruble, and Yen.

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        2 months ago

        You have to compare apples to apples. But also, gold is not a good inflation hedge on short timescales (years). It only really holds its value over a hundred years.

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      2 months ago

      No.

      Yes

      The dollar has recently been stronger against the Euro, Pound, Yuan, Ruble, and Yen.

      What does that have to do with my point? The petrodollar is (for now) the reserve currency and has a place of privilege where it can generally farm out the effects of it’s overprinting and mismanagement to other countries and currencies.

      The dollar is STILL in freefall though. Look at purchasing power. The prices of groceries, houses, lumber, commodities etc

      I attribute this to the COVID cash giveaway where we printed 20% of all the dollars that had ever been printed in history up to that point.

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        2 months ago

        It’s no use. I’m embarrassed for having told people that Lemmy is a generally intelligent group. I had no idea that basic economics was beyond the hive mind here. It feels weird even calling this basic economics, this is more like basic observation. I had no idea that there were people emotionally invested in pretending like inflation is fake.