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Food prices are still up twenty to forty percent.
Right! and now, amazing news! Our expenses are only growing at a rate of only 2.4%!! Hooray?!?
2% is actually pretty good and about what you want. Maintaining flat spending power sounds great on paper, but also puts an economy at increased risk of recession and citizens at increased risk of ballooning debt.
That's nice and all, but wages do not increase year over year for most people, so most people would prefer those risks and be able to continue living, instead of helping to balloon the suicide statistic.
We're taking about the consumer price index here. Inflation regarding the cost of living only. This is, as i hinted previously, heavily caused not by "inflation" (as youd consider it in econ 101) but corporate price-gouging.
Corporate price-gouging is i feel i must add capital N Not inflation in the traditional sense... But in the scope of this article and our conversation, it is.
So again, fucking-A yes I want price gouging to stop, right now.. So like, if you wish to continue wit me we need to agree on terms. Let me know you agree this cpi definition and inflation in this case is "price gouging" otherwise we may as well just part ways
Agreed. I’m talking about deflation though. The debts you acquire balloon in size, even without interest, during deflation.
I don't think we do agree. As you can see in the chart, our debts have been ballooning under inflation.
That's total debt, he's talking about individual debt. Deflation is bad. This is not really up for debate. 2% inflation is a fine target and worked well for decades.
As you can see in the chart, I'm talking about per person too.
I don't think 2008 did work well.
If you don't want to debate about this, then don't.
