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There are three charts on the linked website - bonds, dollars and stocks. None of them are exactly measures of wealth. My question is about how their properties as mutual numeraires could allow them to all fall at the same time.


People are willing to pay fewer dollars for each asset class.


People can't be willing to pay fewer dollars for the third asset class, which is dollars.


you absolutely can pay fewer dollars for dollars delivered at some point in the future


tautologically the price of one dollar will always be one dollar but they can be less willing to spend those dollars on anything, and simultaneously less willing to sell assets they already own for dollars.




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