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Ask HN: How to Short the U.S. Government?

3 points by Kapura ↗ HN
I have been paying attention to the news in the past few months, and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the U.S. is not interested in remaining viable on the international marketplace, and may indeed default on its debt obligations to other countries. Given the fact that I have very little control over much more than my own assets, what can I do to turn this seemingly bad situation to my advantage?

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ferguess_k
Long Gold, short USD, short Treasury.

Not financial advices.

churchill
The Americans can afford to be irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
JohnFen
Maybe. But if the current efforts keep up at this pace, the majority of citizens are going to be very broke pretty fast.
ElevenLathe
Shorts are expensive to keep on long term, so unless you are very confident of a collapse happening like, this month, probably better to instead be long stuff that would benefit from US collapse. I can't actually think of major asset classes that would benefit but there are probably small plays like particular public companies or commodities with non-US supply chains for things where the current cheapest supplier is American (European banks? Soybean futures for delivery in Asia?)