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Re:Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis po... by hot_gril on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:45PM (#32929533)
Money-"printing" creates the need to stash money away, which leads to passive investing since most people who have savings aren't market experts, which leads to perpetual bubbles. There's no option to simply hold money. This investment at least tends to go into profitable things like stocks, but not in a proportionate way. It hardly matters how profitable a company is; you just expect the stock to go up regardless because people are parking money there.

Basically, ridiculous startups and ridiculous corporate projects get funding when they shouldn't.

Re:Federal Reserve to increase interest rates by 75 basis po... by hot_gril on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:50PM (#32929628)
Oh and house prices in some places are ridiculous too, not in the whiny "I can't afford a house" way (I can) but just looking at the market. They have little to do with the actual utility you get out of home ownership, but that's ok because you're getting a growth asset under an effectively govt-subsidized loan. How can you tell, compare to rent, which is just the price of living.