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Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by tjoff on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:10PM (#15708326)
Yeah, let's hold up the vacation so that we can get that airport sandwich for free.

I don't even think people have a grasp of the effects on inflation/deflation in practice anyway, let alone suddenly make strategic decisions upon it.

Re:The Shock of Sweden's Housing Market Is Hitting the Count... by nerfhammer on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @05:39PM (#15708611)
Different types of goods are affected differently. Groceries aren't affected at all, but for large purchases there is empirical evidence that expectations of deflation lead to a general decrease in spending:

e.g. https://www.dallasfed.org/assets/documents/institute/wpapers... , http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2015.110...