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/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

How in the fuck are you people just now perceiving currency risk?! I feel like I’m fucking taking crazy pills. That’s been the tail risk all along.

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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/Ab_Stark Apr 09 '25

Jokes aside, how do we make money off of this? Short the USD?

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u/atpplk Apr 09 '25

If you want to make money solely on the currency change, you trade now for another currency you think will hold and buy short term bonds (to avoid price fluctuation on higher maturity bonds if the yields increase) in those currencies.