[politicket]

The problems are actually a dim-witted trade war with China where most of the stuff comes from, helicopter money printed to give away in covid support and sanction policymaking numerous players doubt the reliability of the American-led system.

China could quickly be shut off if we turned on our industrial machine and told the environmental globalists to go pound sand.

As far as the rest - you and I would probably agree a lot more than you think.

Our difference is that you believe we have massive inflation coming, while I believe it will be massive deflation.

[NorseViking]

China has half a billion people to lift from poverty into the middle class, the whole of Africa and Latin America for this purpose. Your self-confidence is troubling.

[NorseViking]

As for deflation, we shall see,