To 'Push Up Inflation', Federal Reserve's Major Policy Shift Could Send Bitcoin Price To $500K

What Say The Feds?

To push up inflation the US Federal Reserve has announced a significant policy change. The fact to be noted is bitcoin greatly benefits from this policy change. Several companies have also begun moving their reserves into the cryptocurrency to hedge against higher inflation as not only the price of bitcoin could surge past $500K. 

Fed Officially Set to Push Up Inflation

On Thursday, significant changes to its policy strategy were announced by the Federal Open Market Committee. It was found coinciding with a speech to a virtual meeting of the annual Jackson Hole economic symposium by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. 

Agreeing to a policy of average inflation targeting, allowing inflation to run moderately above 2% for some time were all 17 top Fed officials. CNBC noted that it means the Fed is less inclined to hike interest rates when the unemployment rate falls. According to Powell, finding it counterintuitive are many that the Fed wants to push up inflation. Posing serious risks to the economy is inflation that is persistently too low. 

Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said on Thursday that it meant inflation in a range of a 2.25% to 2.5% annual rate as the Fed chairman did not clarify what moderately above 2% means. 

Expecting Powell’s speech about the Fed’s higher inflation policy is the market. There are two ways out when the bill comes due, as Jill Carlson, the Open Money Initiative co-founder opined further adding that the first is to Hurt the poor with inflation as the second comes hurt the rich with taxation adding making options A the official policy by the Fed. 

The Observations From The Experts

Referring to the sound that a money printing press makes when left running some people commented on Twitter that a Historic Brrrrrrr is incoming. Charles Edward, Capriole Investments founder responded to the policy shift news tweeting the beginning of the end of fiat. 

Viewing the Fed’s announcement as bullish are the bitcoiners. There were many taking to social media reminding others of the benefits that bitcoin offered following Powell’s speech. Louis Liu, of the Mimesis Capital, was quoted while many other chimed in to just say buy bitcoin, that Powell is a friend of bitcoin. Furthermore, as Bitcoin doesn’t need the Fed to succeed whereas if they insist on throwing gasoline on the fire, then so be it according to Abra CEO Bill Barhydt. 

Gemini Exchange co-founder Tyler Winklevoss wrote that continuing to be Bitcoin’s biggest booster, is the Fed under the leadership of Jerome Powell. For a $550K bitcoin as ultimately the only long-term protection against inflation, he made a case on Thursday. Meaning it could hit $500K per coin or even higher, he explained that the price of the cryptocurrency could appreciate 45 times from today’s price. At the time of writing, the price of BTC stands at $11,453. 

To hedge against higher inflation, some businesses have already moved their reserves into bitcoin. It was announced that it has converted reserves worth $250 million into bitcoin for this purpose by Nasdaq listed company MicroStrategy. Further, it observed distinctive properties of the bitcoin leading to believe investing in the cryptocurrency providing not only a reasonable hedge against inflation whereas the prospect of earning a higher return than other investment, as the company explains. 

Converting all of its cash reserves into bitcoin is the Canadian restaurant chain Tahini, following MicroStrategy while software company Snappa allocated 40% of its cash reserves into the cryptocurrency. 

'Opt-Out With Bitcoin' Says Visa Exec Slamming Fed's Policy Change 

The central bank will be allowing inflation to run up higher than 2% for some time according to the US Federal Reserve. 

The central bank will hold to its new policy framework, as the Fed also said that it wouldn’t hold a bias toward the labour markets.

The Fed explained on Thursday that as the Committee seeks to achieve inflation averaging 2% over time, therefore it was judged that following periods when inflation has been running persistently below 2%. 

The central bank added that to achieve inflation moderately above 2% for some time, appropriate monetary policy is likely to aim.

To let inflation run more rampant a few analysts and economists commented on the central bank’s new direction following the Fed’s major policy shift.

About the Fed’s latest move to let inflation run hotter than usual, Andy Yee a senior director of policy at Visa tweeted that for the history books will be Jerome Powell’s speech today. It was found that the Visa executive continued stating, so much stolen from so many by so few, never in the history of mankind, and so better opt-out with Bitcoin.  

Commenting on bitcoin on numerous occasions in the past was the Visa executive Yee on Twitter. According to Yee, CNBC reported that the Fed Chair was set to deliver a profoundly consequential speech that said, delivering profoundly consequential whitepaper changing how people view money was Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. 

Thereby explaining on Twitter was Raoul Pal the chief executive officer at Real Vision he said, in recent days he knows that gold and bitcoin have slumped whereas stressing that Jerome Powell’s comments were set to bolster an inherent upside skew in both assets. He then added that rising over time in inflation or deflation is the gold and bitcoin. While the fact is that most people don’t understand the latter when simply put it was shown that there is ZERO tolerance for deflation as they will do ANYTHING to stop it as Powell has shown that its good for the two hardest assets Gold, and Bitcoin and so Powell WANTS inflation.  

Adding to it Pal thinks bitcoin is set to outperform gold during the macroeconomic storm. Insisting on Twitter, he said bitcoin can go up 50x or even 100x, whereas Gold can go up 2x or 3x or even 5x. 

The Conclusion 

Speaking out against the Fed’s manipulation after Powell’s statements were a great number of other free-market advocates of bitcoin. On Thursday the Fed Chair never disclosed what moderately above 2% means.

Elaborating further on the matter was St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, who said, with many opinions, this is a very large committee as you know in an interview with Bloomberg. He further doesn’t want to get into precise mathematical formulas of bitcoin prices here as the spirit of this comes with the committee’s judgment where it would be wise to allow inflation above the targets for some time to make up for past misses.