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Whitney Baker on Why "Immaculate Disinflation" is an Illusion | #453

The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing

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Oil Is the World Central Banker Now?

There's been no period aside from this year in the last 50 years, when some central bank wasn't buying us treasuries. It's not that oil prices are low, obviously, it's mostly that those countries by virtue of selling us stuff ultimately then became more prosperous and started to spend that income on stuff domestically. By virtue of doing that, they eroded their own surpluses. And so you're getting a synchronized move higher in prices. The value or the cost of real things is now essentially converging with a falling price of all of those paper promises that were made for decades.

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