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by OgsyedIE 342 days ago
This whole argument assumes that the 1977-2024 period is a good basis for predicting the future, but that period is the height of globalization, a long stretch of stocks (almost) always beating commodities and land. Looking at much longer timescales however, the USA has periodic flips between commodity bear times and commodity boom times that line up with changes in DC's willingness to support the global trade of intermediate goods and services.
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> the USA has periodic flips between commodity bear times and commodity boom times that line up with changes in DC's willingness to support the global trade of intermediate goods and services.

Could you explain a bit more here? What counts as a change in DC's willingness? And, out of boom or bust, which aligns with which kind of DC policy?