/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>24723261
Inflation doesn't track evenly accross all goods, services or assets. Implying or even not mentioning this is how Deflationist shills try to convince smooth brains of the legitimacy of government reported CPI(lol).

>>22546379
>Price of everything actually meaningful has been radically outstripping wages for decades
>CPI formula consistently tweaked to support whatever the government wants it to say
>Lumber has gone parabolic, and food is going up as admitted by the actual fucking head of the Fed
OH BuT MUH HOuSe WeNT DoWN bY 10% THiS YeAR!!!!!

Kys you pathetic indoctrinated Boomer.

>MUH 2%

>>22517629
Inflation isn't even across all asset classes or items. Those that swelled hot can deflate temporarily, while laggards more than pick up the pace.

Deflation is a Boomer boogeyman to keep housing prices high.

>>22509337
>Series I bonds match inflation.
>Implying

>>22397797
>inflation isn't happening
I don't take anyone who spews this seriously. When you take gasoline, housing, and pretty much everything meaningful out of official CPI calculations, of course inflation has been sub 2% for the past 20 years.

>>22212831
Is buying a house cheaper today, corrected for "inflation", or not? I don't care if canned onions beans or an iPhone are not all that more expensive because of 20 years of technological advancements and outsourcing masking the hidden costs. Why is the former going up growth and the latter inflation?
"Inflation" is a buzzword that can be defined however you want. You have to look at what happening to the real economy underneath and its allocation of resources when you abstract away currencies. Inflation is used to prop up and consolidate the wealth of assets, as is the frankenstein of overleveraged credit (fiat against assets) that has been created.
If you think elites in any society acting in their self-interest is a conspiracy, you're delusional. Do you think people just act out of the goodness of their hearts? Even if they do, they'd love to have a moral excuse to do something good that just happens to benefit them. Academics step up to service that market with bogus theorycrafting, and sound economics is driven out of the market by lack of demand.
Even for CPI wageslave subsistence numbers the indicator methodology can easily be tampered with to create the desired results. See - Shadowstats using old official methodology applied to current data.
>big companies raising prices
What is the ultimate cause to this proximate one? Could it be that these big companies have an inherent advantage due to being endlessly propped up by low interest and high inflation?

>>21581132
Hello my jewish friend. Trying a new persona I see
I will go ahead and post the shadow stats and filter you.
Have a great day