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No economics is "economics 101" stuff. Economics 101 is a gross over simplification to get students accustomed to basic concepts. There's a reason economics is
by zcw100 5y ago
No economics is "economics 101" stuff. Economics 101 is a gross over simplification to get students accustomed to basic concepts. There's a reason economics is called the dismal science.
You've got a system where everything is connected to everything else. There is no way you're going know if it's good for you or not. I have a house with a mortgage so inflation is good. If I can keep my job and demand higher wages. But if inflation is high it will put pressure on the fed to bring it down raising interest rates. Higher interest rates mean buyers won't quality for as high of a mortgage and the price of my house goes down. Unless they can also get higher wages to offset inflation. But then the county notices that their coming up short on tax revenue because of inflation and reassess my taxes. But I need a new roof and that just got more expensive. But my 401k is doing great etc, etc.
All of these things are in balance and you have no idea which ones are elastic and which ones aren't. It's like trying to balance a 10,000 leg stool. You can maybe make some gross generalities and even then you're often going to be wrong depending on where you own your home, what businesses are location close to there. What you have your 401k invested in.