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How did your three-year global journey change you?Your recent piece on How the USD has held up as "Global Reserve Currency" shows that, even though there was a rush into dollars as the world economy was shut down, it's begun it's decline again as demand has been declining. Some have been speculating the dollar would collapse soon, but this is in fiat to fiat terms. What do you see in terms of public confidence and the collapse of the dollar?Let's talk about the new Fed direct payment system, FedNow. You indicated that this was the lesser evil, the greater evils are asset purchases, QE or Negative rates for generating inflation. Couple of things, first do you really think they will stop QE or asset purchases? Further, we know there's been a push to get rid of cash in order to have direct control over their policies. So while, on the surface it may seem better than other policies, couldn't it be a way to ultimately gain direct control?I also wanted to talk about what's happening in the real estate market. You live in San Fran and have shown pictures of it as a ghost town. Yet we're also seeing new house sales soar and bidding wars again. We know there are eviction bans in place, though this does not apply in all cases, and we also know there are mortgage moratoriums still in place, though again, this does not apply to all cases. As work from home becomes more ingrained, what do you see ahead for real estate?Links to slides and sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/coffe...
Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to come together in community in order to survive and thrive through the hyperinflation she sees in the near future.
Wolf Richter is the founder of Wolf Street Corp and the publisher of WolfStreet.com. Wolf has over twenty years of C-level operations experience, including turnarounds and a VC-funded startup. He has a BA, MA, and MBA (UT at Austin). In his prior life, he worked in Texas and Oklahoma, including a decade as General Manager and COO of a large Ford dealership and its subsidiaries.