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bucolic_frolic

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2. How would they control inflation with everyone lobbying for more money?

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Fri Mar 21, 2025, 09:36 AM

Mar 21

It would be like pandemic inflation at the supermarket. Then there would be the austerity forces - Republicans - wanting to limit it to basic food and rent. The idea those 2 forces will meet in the middle and it will be fine - non-inflationary - remains unproven.

Inflation is too much money chasing too few goods. It can effect anything, like the stock market, or the price of eggs, or rent or housing.

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Kick SheltieLover Mar 21 #1

How would they control inflation with everyone lobbying for more money? bucolic_frolic Mar 21 #2