Getting an unpleasant early peek into just how much the pandemic has deeply messed up normal government functioning. How do you short governments?
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This is a rhetorical talk-like-a-pirate question. I don’t actually short things or otherwise invest in my gloomy speculations. I only nurture them as petty resentments against the world.
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You could try shorting the dollar or treasuries by buying puts on an ETF like TLT or UUP, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it
"Cleanest" way might be puts on the S&P 500/SPY, since it's entirely in the care of the Fed now, but that's another toughie to time
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Physical gold/silver, cryptocurrency. A place like upma.org lets you have a physical gold (and/or silver) back account w/ debit card to use it normal places. There are a lot of options for crypto.








