Name: Is Deflation A Real Threat? - 0-DTE Podcast #015 - https://0-dte.com/try
Uploaded: 2021-07-21T18:28:00+00:00
Duration: 24 min 6 s
Description: Inflation has been with us for months now, spurred on by massive stimuli, nearly $6 Trillion in the past 6 months alone. The classic signs are all there, dramatic rising costs; energy, housing, food,

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Inflation has been with us for months now, spurred on by massive stimuli, nearly $6 Trillion in the past 6 months alone. The classic signs are all there, dramatic rising costs; energy, housing, food, labor. Yet gold is stagnant, interest rates are falling, the dollar is rising. What's going on here Sparky?

Our buddy Jerome Powell at the Fed says it's all transitory, just a minor bump caused by the pandemic. He's convinced congress that continuing his accommodative monetary policy is the right thing to do...all this while Rome is burning. And he actually hints of deflation on the horizon...WTF?

Now there's a growing list of notable economists that are entertaining the idea of deflation...so what's it gonna be, are we gonna melt down or melt up? Listen to this episode where we try to make sense of this, and what it means to option premium and our ability to extract it on the 0DTE battle field.