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Re:The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since Oct... by seibelj on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @11:52AM (#22171155)
An extremely controversial topic! If you are middle class to upper middle class, owning assets to protect from the inflation (stocks, bonds, housing, gold, bitcoin) would be one way.

If you mean unwinding our current loose-money global monetary system of fiat currencies, I'm not sure that genie can or will ever go back into the bottle. Let's hope the next recession is gentle.

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Re:The Fed Has Bought 70% of Net Treasury Issuance Since Oct... by jsjohnst on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:06PM (#22172172)
> Let's hope the next recession is gentle.

On one hand I agree with you completely, on the other hand a very hard painful reset is kinda needed too. I really hope it doesn’t come to the later, but I’m not sure we can avoid it long term.

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