Then they could start doing shady stuff like increasing retirement age and means testing, in order to keep more of the funds locked up.

Yes. Very realistic and it would take some pressure off.

siggy47

I agree on both counts. What seems more realistic to me is some financial regulation that requires pension funds and university trusts to hold a large share of their portfolios in treasuries. I'm sure there are other seemingly mundane strategies that can be rolled out.

Undisciplined

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I still wouldn't rule it out. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I know there are people who believe the Whitney Webb theory that there will be a false flag cyber attack on the international banking system that causes a complete reset, but that seems way too far fetched to me. Then again, I still have trouble believing the covid lockdowns happened.