John wrote: Thu Dec 09, 2021 11:03 am
** 09-Dec-2021 World View: Desperation
richard5za wrote: Thu Dec 09, 2021 9:57 am
> On my charts Gold is looking like its coiled ready to fly upwards;
> I don't know how much. So this might be an inflation warning that
> Vince is right after all. However, I can't help feeling that
> longer term gold, the stock markets, bitcoin, and all will be
> deflationery. A market and economic crash is deflationery and
> thats where I think we are heading!
Richard, this is what I was writing about yesterday. You don't know
whether we're headed for inflation or deflation, whether to invest in
gold or stocks. You're totally confused, and you're desperate to
figure out what to do next.
With pandemic advice changing every day, with every city and state and
every nation following different rules, with every analyst having a
different prediction for inflation, tapering and rate reduction,
everyone is confused, and desperate to figure out what to do next.
This is the most confusing and dangerous time in my memory.
Experts haven't mattered ... forever. Ideas have. And they can be tested. And we can make predictions based on our reasoning and the structure of the economy and fiscal/political activity. That's why guys like vince and myself predicted what would happen, and have been correct. So John, tell me if I have this correct:
You believe that a crisis is coming, so that means deflation to you. But for some reason you don't want to talk about what's clearly happening
right now (inflation), so you keep confusing other people regarding your eventual prediction (deflation). The key to everything is, as I have said, assigning probabilities to each scenario and having relative wins or losses that are appropriate. For example, if I'm right about BTC, I win the game of monetary life. That is as big an upside as one can ever have, so it's totally foolish to not stake something on it. But yes, I'm also younger so I have more to gain than a 70 year old, let's say.
If the crisis doesn't come for quite a while still, early will mean being wrong in terms of what one should do economically, just like it has been for those who didn't get in the S&P 10 years ago, and those who aren't in commodities or BTC now. I don't know what is so difficult to understand about this, what I have said happened, is happening, and what I think will happen coincides with the doomsayers, which means already if you think a crisis is coming, I'm totally right. Inflation, then deflation.
If I'm wrong, please tell me how there hasn't been inflation, how the Fed admitted it was wrong, and how cost of living continues to increase. If I'm right, also, please don't call me names as I feel like being right around here is a weird trigger to the pride of so many.