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    Yippee!!! 50% increase! So you’re saying I should buy all the bread and eggs right now, store them until May of next year, and then I’ll be a billionaire, too???

    Me in December: this place smells like shit…

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      A better strategy is to buy real assets like gold and silver, which not only hold their value with inflation, but generally tend to explode in price as people wake up and pile in.

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        Gold and silver are expensive compared to bread and eggs. You’re just jealous because I came up with the plan first!

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        When people “wake up” and trade their paper for shiny metals with no real inherent value beyond maybe industrial uses.

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          Shiny metals have had value to men for the entirety of recorded history and across societies, perhaps originating in their desirability for jewelry, for which they are still in significant demand today. They have been used as money more or less since the advent of money.

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        You people have been saying this for 100 years. It’s gonna be true aaaaaany day now…

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          It was true during the Great Depression and the Weimer Republic. I think Trump’s profile would neatly slot into both of their shapes, if we are to predict the future.