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Off Topic / Re: The Economic Collapse
« Last post by tp4tissue on Sun, 16 August 2026, 15:22:43 »Ok... so..
We're seeing the talking heads now saying, Long Gold, Long Hard Assets.
Mmmm.. Ok...... yes and Nooo!.
Think about it this way, IN the APOCALYPSE, what are you going to do with gold, trade it? Maybe in a mini-pocalypse, where fiats scale down, and gold being the original pokemon card, is the "trusted-older-better" fiat.
But in the REALpocalypse, GOLD is useless, people would rather own SHOES, CANNED SOUP. The GOLD equivalent would be is CANNED PORK, the Diamond equivalent would be CANNED PINEAPPLES, Iron Salt batteries.
So, yes on Hard Assets, be it oil, dirt, sand, something physical.
But GOLD?
The risk here is, is it a mini-pocalypse, or a REAL-pocalypse.
Tp4 would lean harder on this-Wave being Realpocalypse. So what are the HARD assets. Where do people actually INTERACT with the "Stuff."
The billionaire investor class, interacts on the paper lvl, so he could indeed put bets on Material Inputs.
For general civilian, they interact with material itself, they wear the actual shoes they can afford.
So, Hard assets may be 9070xts for a normal person.
For the mid-investor class, Hard assets is wholly characterized by what ?
RMB, why, that's the gateway of exchange of REAL STUFF.
Grimini is going hard on Panda bonds, AND ANDDDDD, their bank has professed hard pivot on being the European corridor TO the RMB marketplace.
This doesn't mean any civilian should go out and buy RMB, you can't buy enough, and you can't take the risk, You're better off stacking Bags of rice, and 9070xts.
The normal civilian will be poor forever, and in an Energy-sparse world, it's only going to get worse.
We're seeing the talking heads now saying, Long Gold, Long Hard Assets.
Mmmm.. Ok...... yes and Nooo!.
Think about it this way, IN the APOCALYPSE, what are you going to do with gold, trade it? Maybe in a mini-pocalypse, where fiats scale down, and gold being the original pokemon card, is the "trusted-older-better" fiat.
But in the REALpocalypse, GOLD is useless, people would rather own SHOES, CANNED SOUP. The GOLD equivalent would be is CANNED PORK, the Diamond equivalent would be CANNED PINEAPPLES, Iron Salt batteries.
So, yes on Hard Assets, be it oil, dirt, sand, something physical.
But GOLD?
The risk here is, is it a mini-pocalypse, or a REAL-pocalypse.
Tp4 would lean harder on this-Wave being Realpocalypse. So what are the HARD assets. Where do people actually INTERACT with the "Stuff."
The billionaire investor class, interacts on the paper lvl, so he could indeed put bets on Material Inputs.
For general civilian, they interact with material itself, they wear the actual shoes they can afford.
So, Hard assets may be 9070xts for a normal person.
For the mid-investor class, Hard assets is wholly characterized by what ?
RMB, why, that's the gateway of exchange of REAL STUFF.
Grimini is going hard on Panda bonds, AND ANDDDDD, their bank has professed hard pivot on being the European corridor TO the RMB marketplace.
This doesn't mean any civilian should go out and buy RMB, you can't buy enough, and you can't take the risk, You're better off stacking Bags of rice, and 9070xts.
The normal civilian will be poor forever, and in an Energy-sparse world, it's only going to get worse.