The answer is all of the above. From Doug Casey at internationalman.com:
International Man: In the past decade, the Fed’s money printing has created bubbles in stocks, bonds, real estate, and other many areas. It’s likely that the stimulus and money printing will not only continue but accelerate at breathtaking speeds in 2021.
What do you think the prospects are for what the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises called a “crack-up boom?”
Doug Casey: First of all, we have to define what Mises meant by a “crack-up boom.” It can occur when the public realizes that money is being printed at a great rate, and it’s likely to continue being printed at a great rate. The public then starts moving out of money to buy anything of real value. All that money is passed around faster and faster, like an old maid card, causing a “crack-up boom.” It’s not a real boom. It’s caused by fear, not prosperity. The desperation of trying to get into real goods and get out of the US dollar creates what you might call uneconomic economic activity.
They won’t try to put the money into productive enterprises, rather just tangible assets that will defend them from inflation. The most famous crack-up boom in modern history, of course, was in Weimar Germany during the early 1920s.
