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RE: The U.S. Dollar Index and why you should learn about it - $DXY
The U.S. dollar has had its worst year in 31 years.
It is on a steep downward trajectory.
Central banks have perpetrated the largest Ponzi scheme in the history of humanity. Quantitative easing will destroy fiat currencies, paving the way for bitcoin.
can you not spam my articles. Secondly Crypto value is derived entirely from fiat. Good day.
Quantitative easing is over. Sigh. Should understand economics before you try and post about them ... to each their own I guess.
Apologies for spam though not sure why it is spam just because I disagree with you. Is there freedom of speech here on steemit or do I get flagged because I disagree?
Even though the U.S. Federal Reserved ended QE in late 2014, QE remains at all-time highs if you total QE flow from all the central banks (Bank of England, ECB, Bank of Japan, etc). This is why legendary investors such as Ed Seykota wrote Govopoly, Alan Greenspan has said "This will not end well" and veteran investor Jim Rogers in a recent interview warned another bear market is coming, and that it will be “horrendous, the worst": http://www.marketwatch.com/story/jim-rogers-says-etf-holders-will-get-mauled-by-the-worst-bear-market-ever-2017-09-21
It’s the level of debt across global economies that will be to blame.
Throw in bond legend Bill Gross's remarks about the house of cards central banks have created and you have a massive global sovereign debt bubble: https://dealbreaker.com/2017/07/bill-gross-quantitative-easing-means-we-cant-have-nice-things/
The world is interconnected so just because the U.S. Federal Reserve stopped QE in 2014, the sum total of QE is at all-time highs. This explains how central banks are now the majority holders in equities, an unprecedented situation. And the U.S. stock market being the tallest standing midget is the direct recipient of this QE flow thus U.S. markets continue to hit new highs.
Central banks have painted themselves into a corner. Yellen is attempting to normalize the balance sheet, but some of the brightest minds including those cited above argue it's too little, too late.
You can share your opinion without spamming your articls. Its hijacking. Secondly QE ended, EU is winding it down. More interesting and I dont think anyone realizes - when the Federal Reserve unwinds the assets bought during 08 -- their cash supply will go up greatly, debt can be paid down.
QE is still at record levels. European Central Bank claims they may start winding it down but so far, they continue to print at record levels. Same with Bank of Japan. Central bankers are politicians first and foremost and have an allegiance to the state, not the people. It is a lot of politico-blather that comes from the mouths of central banks.
If the Fed unwinds the assets bought since '08, we are talking many trillions of dollars. It will be a first in 5000 years of recorded human history if such burdensome debt is paid off. Never before has a government ever paid off such onerous debt. This is why the average lifetime of fiat currency is less than 40 years.
As Ed Seykota famously said, take a penny at the time of Christ and compound it at a nominal 2%/yr interest. You get 2.2 followed by 17 zeroes (2.2 x 10^17), or far more money than has ever existed. Governments and currencies fail, over and over again, because the same mistakes are made. In my discussions with Seykota, he agreed that blockchain technology may be the one great counterbalance to the coming collapse.
As for bitcoin deriving its value from fiat, there will be a dislocation at some point. When there is financial upheaval, the price of bitcoin has spiked. When Cyprus banks collapsed, bitcoin price spiked higher.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/heres-how-world-fiat-money-affects-bitcoin-price
The article concludes: So far there is no indication that fiat money influence Bitcoin price after all. Bitcoin has been developing on its own, disregarding international news and major currencies movement.
thank you