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by u678u 1960 days ago
> Asset inflation has been raging for at least a decade, maybe 2, inflating stock assets, housing and commodities, bitcoin

In the US maybe, in the UK the FTSE100 has been pretty flat for over twenty years. Yes houses have gone up a lot, do you really think that can continue? Commodities are flat in the last few decades.

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No I don't think the asset bubble can or will continue indefinitely, hence the last sentence above.

Re commodities Gold has risen a lot in the last couple of decades.

So hodl gold&silver for economic protection?
Historically those have not been great bets to hedge against a crash - they tend to crash with stock prices. See 2008 for an example.
But they do hedge against inflation, right? i assume that’s what the next crash might look like.