• Corelli_III@midwest.social
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    1 day ago

    it’s going to be pretty cool when the USD is annihilated by this

    they really boned themselves by concentrating all of it among themselves and basing its value off of fake proof of work factories

    • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      16 hours ago

      If the USD is annihilated the great depression will look like nothing. Breton Woods ended but America is still smack dab in the middle of everybody’s economy. It’s why no one is calling in their debt, but keep buying it. It’s a fucking global ponzi scheme.

      Edit: I just looked it up and 88% of global currency trades involve the dollar.

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      17 hours ago

      The rest of the world is unfortunately not immune to US problems. What inevitably happens is the bubble pops, the government prints money to bail out the gamblers who benefitted from the bubble, then insist on austerity for regular people to get the resulting inflation under control

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        Yeah, but if that wild money printing turns out to be the coup de grace on the status of the USD as the World’s Reserve Currency, it will just make things worse as such an event comes with its own “bubble bursting” that will massively fuck up holders of USD (such as Americans, but also anybody who didn’t exit the USD on time).

        The status of the USD as Reserve Currency is already pretty shaken as the EUR and other currencies have increasingly become part of the currency reserves in most countries, replacing the USD, and Trump’s antics have convinced other countries to accelerate their plans to move away from using the Dollar in international trade, most notably China.

        The technique of printing lots of Dollars is nowhere as safe now as it was back when it was used to paper over the problems from the 2008 Crash.

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          Also depending on how bad the whole situation could get it could legit implode the federal government as a whole. I really don’t see the feds under Trump doing even the bare minimum that was Hoovers anti-depression policy which while the absolute minimum was enough to keep the states from effectively becoming completely autonomous, and even then California, Louisiana, and the Alaska territory were effectively independent in a lot of ways.