• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Nothing indicates a stronger economy than roaring inflation, high as fuck interest rates, tons of corporate bankruptcies, and bank failures.

    What a fucking joke. This timeline sucks.

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      1 year ago

      “The Economy” is the state of the ruling class’s bank account. It has nothing to do with whether the working class can afford housing or food. /S

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      1 year ago

      Yes, mild inflation (2-10%) is a sign of a strong economy. Personally, I think the Fed target of 2% is too low nad it should be at 4% to benefit the working class more. Would you like to know more?

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        Yes, mild inflation (2-10%) is a sign of a strong economy.

        Prove it, no appeals to consensus or theory

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          Ok, you’re right. It depends on an individualcs defination of a strong economy. Generally, in a stable nation, a economic depression is accompanied by deflation. I can trot out FRED graphs that agree with me, but graphs are funny like the pirates vs global warming joke.

          All that said, generally, in a stable nation, when alot of working folks are losing their jobs inflations slows hard or we hit a lil deflation.

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            1 year ago

            A strong advancing economy means goods/services are easier to come by/afford (more advanced tech/infra), which for a currency with the same supply would mean decreasing prices, i.e. “deflation”.

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                Try thinking for more than two minutes about the actual fundamentals, jfc. Same number of people, same amount of money, same amount of time put in, more goods produced, goods cost less. People treat economics like a frigging religion, IDK how people end up believing the opposite of something so basic as that. And then to actually get that arrogant over it, saying I sound like a bad LLM bot.

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        Sounds good except we are no where near 2-10% inflation, unless you’re dumb enough to believe the manipulated numbers that the feds release. Actual inflation is significantly higher.