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Sure, but when I sell 100 shares of IBM I am not forced to buy another 100 shares. When I sell my home I very much have to replace it.
by wonderwonder 5y ago
Sure, but when I sell 100 shares of IBM I am not forced to buy another 100 shares. When I sell my home I very much have to replace it.
- lkrubner 5y agoThat is a valid issue that you raise, but unrelated to the conceptual issue of whether an increase in the nominal price of an asset can be coherently understood to be a form of "inflation." Hopefully everyone on Hacker News is smart enough to know that housing has special features that are different from other asset classes.
- wonderwonder 5y agoProbably most people, I am questionable :)