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Comment by bertjk | Hacker News Reader

>> the democrats don't know enough to read the writing on the wall.

What are you suggesting exactly here? That the Fed is hell-bent on inducing general inflation, even at the cost of skyrocketing asset values?

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My understanding is that the inflation is causing skyrocketing asset values, it just hasn't trickled down into the economy.

The action of central banks setting interest rates is an artificial market intervention that necessarily suppresses others asset prices by making risk free assets available that pay free money to banks and financial institutions.

Once the central bank hits zero, asset prices return to their market clearing prices as participants chase yield

Not necessarily. So far it seems like the FED has gotten a lot better at preventing recessions / depressions. That might take some risk out of the market and cause valuations to go up given that risk is less.

Probably a little of both, but it is an interesting time in economics for sure.

We are all commenting on an internet forum run by a company whose entire purpose is to funnel money captured from the (predicted and actual) sale of valuable assets into the economy in the form of more new companies.

This. So much.

And it won't, how should it trickle down?

By the 10 %? By the people entering pension?

I will be K shaped, the rich get richer, pension people will be able to "enjoy" there pension and the poor wont be able to afford rent. Since big corps and funds will invest in housing to "save" money.

Perhaps they want they want to make a "trillion dollars" the new "billion dollars" by inflating the national debt away. YMMV

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