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Re:Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory by WanderPanda on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:04PM (#28050863)
Where did we end up if shorting your currency is the only way to go? I could not sleep well with the potentially unbounded loss
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Re:Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory by imtringued on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:02PM (#28051544)
You short the USD by borrowing in USD, spending USD while it is still valuable and then wait for it to devalue. Deflation is a bad thing so the Fed won't let it happen.

Of course the flaw with this is that I get 4% interest on personal loans so I actually can't make money off of this strategy.

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Re:Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:15PM (#28051697)
Gold. Gold essentially functions as a short on paper currency. If you're wrong, you'll lose money, but it won't be an unbounded loss.
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Re:Entire German bond yield curve back in sub-zero territory by throw0101a on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:59PM (#28053423)
Gold isn't as much of a hedge as most people think. Two papers by Erb & Harvey cited in the podcast:

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w18706

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2639284

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