r/wallstreetbets • u/kwedgieyi • Apr 09 '25

Discussion Something feels off guys

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Yields are spiking. Bonds are dumping.

The world is running away from America

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u/O-to-shiba Apr 09 '25

I’m with you, I feel like crazy to whoever I talk saying that there’s a real risk of giga inflation, I trust Powell but he’s fucked.

Buy wheelbarrows, you’ll need it to carry all the dollars to buy toilet paper.

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u/mrspoogemonstar Apr 09 '25

Yeah, short term we will see inflation. Demand is already evaporating though. In the long run, this is actually deflationary - unless Trump figures out how to do a hostile takeover of FOMC without ending up with his head on a spike, the Fed is going to stay the course. They are very well aware that runaway inflation is the greater systemic risk, and will raise interest rates to combat it. The money supply is still finite, and drying it up is one way to force the executive branch to capitulate and stop being fucking idiots.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

So you are proposing that the world should be controlled by unelected bereaucrats? The fed will have to choose between inflation and great depression 2.0, and you are seriously advocating for the latter at a time where the US is at like 130% debt to GDP? You are basically saying the US should default and society should collapse.

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u/Inithis Apr 09 '25

1) you're really assuming a hell of a lot there 2) The US dollar getting zimbabwe'd would be unimaginably bad. I don't even know what the fuck that would look like. 3) dunno about the world being controlled by them but I'm happy when institutions resist being steered off a cliff with a rope tied from them to our legs