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The Conservative Party in Great Britain has been trying to make home ownership a reliable method of saving for the last century. They pretty much succeeded: house prices have been going up almost constantly since the war, and owning a house all but guarantees you'll be able to built generational wealth.

This came at high costs: once a large enough part of the population buys houses at inflated prices with the expectation of their price further increasing, the government needs to protect them from housing crashes and depreciation to inflate the bubble further and further.

Now that pretty much everyone has their money invested in the stock market, I see the same thing happening in the US. The Fed needs to keep the interest rate artificially low and guarantee policies to keep the stock market up so that people don't lose money, but also making sociery overall worse.



Central banks keep interest rate low not because of the stock market.

People focus too much on stocks. The real question is about the real economy, about price stability and unemployment. Especially in case of the Fed ( https://www.chicagofed.org/research/dual-mandate/dual-mandat... , but of course other central banks are also tracking labor markets too, even if de jure it's not their target - https://ideas.repec.org/p/fip/fedbsp/70.html ).

And we can say whatever we like about how the rich get richer, our current economic system do responds to what central banks do. Cheap money (an oversupply of low and even lower interest rate debt) helps persuade people to buy/invest/order things. It helps finance stimulus bills, and so on.

The savings are "just" an indicator. Sure, when the savings crash, the economy crashes too, but the causality is backwards. If/when the economy crashes (when industries stop, when people stop buying, when businesses let people go) savings will also become "worthless", because after all they represent future income, and if the economy tanks its productivity (income) tanks too.




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