luciusdomitius

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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
Well, I believe it is. The original argument was that it is a very large price increase of small number of not that widely consumed goods causing the numbers to look that bad. Housing, transportation, energy and food are the majority of exp
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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
This is nice talk, but have you really not bought groceries, electronics, filled up your tank or paid an electrcity/natgas bill in the past 6 months?
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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
I don't see how a random person claiming something was shared with them in a phone call with another person, who probably has neither respect nor desire to talk to them is a geniune information. On top of that the person in question do
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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
This is a very very good point. If the short-term effects are supply-side (including labour) crisis and massive resource misallocation, how is it going to get any better once demoralisation, loss of trust kick, etc in?
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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
Is the very temporary covid deflation a bigger deflationary shock than The Great Contraction of the 1930s?
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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
This is a pretty solid theory to be honest. On top of that the goalposts constantly keep moving. Here is what CPI would look like today without all the changes to the formula: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/i
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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
Yet another bunch of arguments that had been made many times over the last years. Sad to watch, frankly.
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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
This is really interesting coming from the Pirate Party. While I remember them for the protests against ACTA some 12 years ago, their biggest success - the Czech Pirate party is extremely pro-Brussels and has hardly breathed a word against
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by luciusdomitius 5y ago
The most difficult aspect of making garum is the brutal stink after only a couple of days. If you live in a flat/row house it is pretty much impossible without causing grave offense.