Re:Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)
by justinator on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:15PM
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Not everyone lives in a house, friend. But you're correct, the burden of inflation rests more on the poor.
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Re:Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)
by DFHippie on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:35PM
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The poor and creditors. The poor, because they have less discretionary income and it isn't inflating to cover their inflating necessary expenditures. The creditors, because their assets are depreciating. The debtors in the middle see their debt, the creditors' asset, deflating.
Re:Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)
by justinator on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:04PM
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I'm not worried about my bank, my credit card company, or my personal loan company - something tells me they'll come out of this OK, if history is any indication. If they don't, I'll be taken down many moons before them.
Re:Inflation rises to 7% in December (led by energy)
by Ericson2314 on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @05:00PM
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wages counts in inflation. The poor may be better off or not based on what is stickier.
We all know labor is weak, so we start expecting wages to rise last, but that is not what happened this time, for there was a genuine tightening of the labor market.