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179 Reasons You Probably Don’t Need to Panic About Inflation

16 points by tysone 5y ago

oenetan 5y ago
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aww_dang 5y ago
Are there any mainstream sources willing to dissent from the Fed's easy money policies? The gymnastics start early in this article: >“Cooling off” the economy sounds prudent, innocuous even. Yet, in practice, this monetary policy maneuver means that the Fed increases borrowing costs for businesses and pulls back on helping jobless Americans find work. So if the Fed didn't exist, and we had a market interest rate - that would be the same as the Fed actively "cooling" the economy? We've gone from "transitory inflation" to, "we can't think about raising rates, because we might not have greater than 2% next year".
h4waii 5y ago
I dare say, when the media and/or the government tells you not to worry about something, you should probably worry about it, conversely when you're told TO worry about it, it's likely too late to even do anything about. Worry about anything and everything you want to so you can plan and be prepared for it, just don't let it consume you.
rootsudo 5y ago
Propaganda, through and through.
Shorel 5y ago
Only worry if you have savings or are in any way financially responsible.
- jondwillis 5y ago
  In my opinion, if you have significant savings in cash, it has been prudent to invest some of that excess in other things than cash and equities for at least three years. The fed has been making consistently bad long-term decisions for awhile now in pursuit of some glamor statistics. Regardless, the current environment largely favors real asset holders, and those with low interest rate debt. If you are really financially responsible you'd be leveraging up right now. /s
  - rootsudo 5y ago
    I agree, leverage up now on debt, just an insult to people that are financially conservative and don't want to have assets.
pwner39 5y ago
Has any president in American history caused the American public to lose as much trust in the media as Trump? Didn't like the guy much at all but loved how he exposed main stream media companies for what they really are nowadays.

16 points by tysone 5y ago

https://archive.is/BP5j9 https://archive.is/BP5j9 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/YlbqY https://ghostarchive.org/archive/YlbqY

aww_dang 5y ago

Are there any mainstream sources willing to dissent from the Fed's easy money policies? The gymnastics start early in this article: >“Cooling off” the economy sounds prudent, innocuous even. Yet, in practice, this monetary policy maneuver means that the Fed increases borrowing costs for businesses and pulls back on helping jobless Americans find work. So if the Fed didn't exist, and we had a market interest rate - that would be the same as the Fed actively "cooling" the economy? We've gone from "transitory inflation" to, "we can't think about raising rates, because we might not have greater than 2% next year".

h4waii 5y ago

I dare say, when the media and/or the government tells you not to worry about something, you should probably worry about it, conversely when you're told TO worry about it, it's likely too late to even do anything about. Worry about anything and everything you want to so you can plan and be prepared for it, just don't let it consume you.

rootsudo 5y ago

Propaganda, through and through.

Shorel 5y ago

Only worry if you have savings or are in any way financially responsible.

jondwillis 5y ago
In my opinion, if you have significant savings in cash, it has been prudent to invest some of that excess in other things than cash and equities for at least three years. The fed has been making consistently bad long-term decisions for awhile now in pursuit of some glamor statistics. Regardless, the current environment largely favors real asset holders, and those with low interest rate debt. If you are really financially responsible you'd be leveraging up right now. /s
- rootsudo 5y ago
  I agree, leverage up now on debt, just an insult to people that are financially conservative and don't want to have assets.

pwner39 5y ago

Has any president in American history caused the American public to lose as much trust in the media as Trump? Didn't like the guy much at all but loved how he exposed main stream media companies for what they really are nowadays.