2023-10-04 10:18:13
There is no way the Fed can lower rates, but keeping them high is trapping them too
If they keep rates high, the interest on the debt starts to eat up the entire budget. Inflation is the only way to pay it off
But if they lower rates and inflation ticks up, people start borrowing like crazy to buy up assets now that they know will be valued more due to inflation
If you took a $10,000 loan at 3% and bought an appreciating (due to inflation) asset and inflation is 10%, you just made the difference
Spent 10,300 in yesterdays $ and made 11,000 in todays
The arbitrage opportunity on the USD would be the smartest, most rational move to make
So they have to keep the interest rate just high enough to prevent that, which means the interest payments eat up the budget and they need inflation to pay it…
Rinse and repeat
Of course, there is another way: Bitcoin
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