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I’ve been chewing on something lately, and I want to walk you through it because it changes how you should think about what’s been happening in this market.
Most people look at the S&P 500 (SPY) run and chalk it up to earnings, Fed policy or momentum. Those things matter, sure. But there’s a bigger dynamic underneath all of it — one that explains why stocks keep grinding higher even when valuations look stretched.
The dollar is losing value. That’s undeniable.
And that erosion is happening under the watch of an increasingly bloated financial bureaucracy — the kind of environment where it feels like everyone has somehow congregated into the largest administrative state in history.
When leadership gets that centralized, mistakes compound faster and confidence drains quicker.
Because of this, equities are becoming a stand-in for the dollar itself.
If you’re just holding dollars, you’re losing money. So where does everyone go? They put it into stocks.
That capital flow is what’s pumping prices — not some sudden surge in business fundamentals, but a scramble to preserve purchasing power.
The Flow That Won’t Stop
This isn’t speculation…
Everybody has their 401(k)s and retirement accounts in SPY funds. That’s automatic, recurring capital flow week after week, paycheck after paycheck.
And it’s not because people are bullish on earnings — it’s because they’re trying to squeeze out returns they’re not getting with savings or cash.
This shift has spilled into other assets, too.
At this point, everybody has had to invest in the stock market or some sort of commodity to get away from bonds and CDs. When traditional saving vehicles barely keep up, people look elsewhere — gold, equities, bitcoin.
Ezra sent me something recently that backs this up in a different way.
Peter Schiff pointed out that gold has outperformed SPY even adjusting for dividends. That tells you something important: People aren’t just chasing growth. They’re chasing protection from currency depreciation.
Gold, stocks, real assets — anything but cash.
Meanwhile, the financial world keeps pretending it can mathematically model its way out of uncertainty.
They build layer after layer of statistical calculus to try to predict the future — stochastics — but the reality is markets remain unpredictable. That’s exactly why people flee into assets that feel tangible and protective.
What This Means for Your Trading
If this thesis holds — and I believe it does — trying to time a top based on valuation alone is going to frustrate you.
As long as the dollar keeps losing value, capital flow will keep driving equities higher independent of traditional metrics.
And let’s be honest: Confidence in economic leadership isn’t exactly booming.
When the people steering policy start looking tapped out and out of ideas, the market responds by protecting itself. Capital moves quickly when leadership feels shaky.
That doesn’t mean you abandon discipline. It means you adjust your lens.
Instead of fighting the flow, recognize it. Position for continued strength in equities and alternatives like gold. Size appropriately. And don’t sit in cash hoping for some reset that may not come until the underlying currency dynamics shift.
The market isn’t irrational. It’s responding to a simple reality:
Holding dollars is a losing trade.
So capital moves. And as long as that pressure exists, the pump continues.
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