2008
The references to 2008 focus mainly on inflation and monetary debasement. Luke Gromen argues that US federal debt has grown at an average 8% compound annual rate since 2008, which he treats as a rough proxy for long-run inflation, while acknowledging inflation has varied materially across individual years 3. He also says the period since 2008 has produced particularly high real inflation in some sectors 4. Brent Johnson separately invokes 2008 as an example of gold initially falling during a crisis because investors sell liquid assets to meet dollar liabilities 1.
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Where the voices land
Nobody took a position in august 2026.
Mentions
17 in August 2026Stories it travels in
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The stories
- ○ a voice, on the left
- ◌ a voice raising half of these
- ● a subject, on the right, under its story
- ⌒ a line is a voice raising a subject — thicker, more items; colour is the story
The stories this entity travels in: on the right, each story with the subjects seen alongside it; on the left, the voices that raised them, and a line for every subject a voice raised, bundled by story. Tap a voice to light everything it raises, a subject for who raised it, a story for its own lines. The crumb goes back.
Who brings it up
- Jack Farley 6 mentions
- Kaiser Kuo 2 mentions
- Quinn Thompson 2 mentions
- Erik Townsend 2 mentions
- Brent Johnson 2 mentions
- Darius Dale 1 mention
- GoldRepublic Global 1 mention
- Robin Wigglesworth 1 mention
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