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Re:Commodities Are Crashing Like It's 2008 All Over Again by lmm on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:15PM (#10019119)
Even on Main Street, when an upscale boutique gets replaced by a dollar store that's not a good sign.

When times are good it doesn't feel like stuff's getting cheaper, it feels like people have more money. A crash in raw materials is a bad sign - it likely means companies have stopped buying because they've stopped innovating, or because they think pretty soon people aren't going to be buying stuff.

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Re:Commodities Are Crashing Like It's 2008 All Over Again by branchless on Thursday August 06, 2015 @04:33PM (#10019241)
Due to our banking model in the West when times are "good" it's actually making life worse for our kids as the primary outcome is land price inflation which makes people fell richer but is not for most monetizable.
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