Brilliant explaination of the current economic predicament by Charles Hugh Smith. He explains how the Federal Reserve has now moved to the “duct-tape” era. This seems to have been confirmed implicitly by the central banks themselves in the recent BIS annual report:
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What is an investor to do? Think long and hard about gold’s outperformance in the first half of this year:
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Dollars Distort Our Understanding of Wealth
Most investors measure wealth in dollars — but what if the ruler itself is shrinking? Since 2000, the S&P 500 is up nearly 5x in dollar terms, yet priced in
