[victoro]

Exactly. Government has been backstopping/de-risking asset ownership since the Great Recession and massively increased that program in March 2020. At the same time, they started to de-risk the asset consumer class with eviction moratoriums and significantly increased unemployment benefits.

Seems to me one of those two classes will need to be inconvenienced if we don't want inflation to spiral out of control, because otherwise the asset owners will continue to buy more assets with cheap money that will push prices up, while asset consumers will continue to require higher and higher salaries to afford to pay the increasing rents to the asset owners.

Asset owners should be the ones taking the hit since they have been backstopped for far longer and are in a much better financial position to deal with it. But the asset owner class is also the one running the country and its tough to imagine them doing something against their short-term self interest.

Gonna be interesting to see what kind of equilibrium shakes out. I hope this plane can be landed without crashing...

[spaetzleesser]

“ Asset owners should be the ones taking the hit since they have been backstopped for far longer and are in a much better financial position to deal with it. But the asset owner class is also the one running the country and its tough to imagine them doing something against their short-term self interest.”

Very true. The Fed pretty much exclusively worries about asset owners and how to drive up asset prices even more. And most people in political or business leadership are asset owners.

I don’t think this will end well. Either we will become a society of super rich people that live separately from a large underclass or there will be a revolution at some point.