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"Elevated inflation reduces the impact of credit card and mortgage debt" is an equally real phenomenon, though. Without numbers your argument is specious. The

by ajross 4y ago

"Elevated inflation reduces the impact of credit card and mortgage debt" is an equally real phenomenon, though. Without numbers your argument is specious. There are winners and losers. Whose losing and by how much? I'll give you a few losers: retirees on fixed incomes, and investment employees working on commission. And a few winners: homeowners, and young professionals with significant credit debt. There are lots of others. Feel free to advocate for the policies you think are appropriate. Just please stop with the "Inflation!" nonsense as a shorthand argument.

marcosdumay 4y ago
> "Elevated inflation reduces the impact of credit card and mortgage debt" is an equally real phenomenon, though. Yes, and it has a different temporal behavior from the impact on the purchase power. The same person can be affected by both. As a rule, inflation infuriates people because almost everyone jut wakes up some day and discover they are much poorer than they used to be. You can't dismiss this by pointing that their net-worth improved. (But yes, the net-worth of a lot of people improves.)
- ajross 4y ago
  > inflation infuriates people I'll certainly grant this, not the least because they get terrible information about it from media and online sources. > almost everyone jut wakes up some day and discover they are much poorer than they used to be Like this. This is not true. This is a lie. You need to stop saying this. People are "much poorer" post-inflation only in the sense that they were "much richer" post-pandemic, due to the huge savings boom. If you aren't willing to look at the latter, then you're not doing the analysis correctly. At most, "some" people are "much poorer" due to asymmetric effects. But you're just wrong here if you try to extend that to "almost everyone". Please stop.

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"Elevated inflation reduces the impact of credit card and mortgage debt" is an equally real phenomenon, though. Without numbers your argument is specious. The

by ajross 4y ago

marcosdumay 4y ago
> "Elevated inflation reduces the impact of credit card and mortgage debt" is an equally real phenomenon, though. Yes, and it has a different temporal behavior from the impact on the purchase power. The same person can be affected by both. As a rule, inflation infuriates people because almost everyone jut wakes up some day and discover they are much poorer than they used to be. You can't dismiss this by pointing that their net-worth improved. (But yes, the net-worth of a lot of people improves.)
- ajross 4y ago
  > inflation infuriates people I'll certainly grant this, not the least because they get terrible information about it from media and online sources. > almost everyone jut wakes up some day and discover they are much poorer than they used to be Like this. This is not true. This is a lie. You need to stop saying this. People are "much poorer" post-inflation only in the sense that they were "much richer" post-pandemic, due to the huge savings boom. If you aren't willing to look at the latter, then you're not doing the analysis correctly. At most, "some" people are "much poorer" due to asymmetric effects. But you're just wrong here if you try to extend that to "almost everyone". Please stop.