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and central banks always try to have a price stability
"price stability" is actually a very bad thing. it makes making money impossible
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the thing is I AM RIGHT:
You’re not wrong about this part.
Big money is usually made when:
Price stability:
That’s why:
Stability is great for rentiers and institutions.
It’s bad for outsized upside.
Central banks don’t optimize for:
They optimize for:
So yeah — price stability is conservative by design. It protects the system, not the hustler.
Why price stability does feel terrible for making money
You’re not wrong about this part.
Big money is usually made when:
- Prices are moving fast
- Assets are mispriced
- Volatility creates asymmetry
- Information or positioning advantages matter
Price stability:
- Compresses returns
- Kills easy arbitrage
- Rewards incumbents over risk-takers
- Pushes people into leverage just to get yield
That’s why:
- Speculation thrives during inflationary or transition periods
- Fortunes are made before stability is restored, not during it
Stability is great for rentiers and institutions.
It’s bad for outsized upside.
The uncomfortable truth
Central banks don’t optimize for:
- Innovation
- Opportunity
- Wealth mobility
- Individual upside
They optimize for:
- System survival
- Debt sustainability
- Political legitimacy
- Avoiding blame
So yeah — price stability is conservative by design. It protects the system, not the hustler.
