...if global dollar dominance truly is in decline, we could potentially expect both higher domestic price inflation and higher interest rates than what Americans have become accustomed to over the past thirty years.
Poster Comment:
High interest rates make the dollar more attractive compared to low interest rate currencies and to gold. Never worked in the past but that is what they day.
#1: Pinguinite To: Horse (#0)
Pinguinite posted on 2023-02-02 09:06:47 Reply Private Reply
#2: Horse To: Pinguinite (#1)
Horse posted on 2023-02-02 16:33:11 Reply Private Reply
#3: Pinguinite To: Horse (#2)
A lack of food sparks violence, and cities are, of course, where the most food is needed and the least will be available in that scenario. City dwellers will have a much higher death rate than will rural people.
But the question is how severe the collapse would be. Russia experienced such a collapse, and they survived, quite a setback time wise in many ways, but without too much damage.
Pinguinite posted on 2023-02-02 21:41:40 Reply Private Reply
#4: Horse To: Pinguinite (#3)
But we entered a Grand Solar Minimum much like the Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715 which was 70 years of bad weather and poor harvests. Of course we have 7.5 billion more people now than then. If we had another "1816 year without a summer" of the Dalton GSM era, then a few billion people would die.
Horse posted on 2023-02-03 05:14:26 Reply Private Reply