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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Biden expands window to try and keep millions more low-income Americans insured

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jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    Gotta disagree with that. Without the fed’s action, we’d have inflation like the 70s and early 80s, when the fed didn’t really do anything. We’d be better off stuck at 10% for years on end?

    And I would call it transitory, since we’re basically sub-3% now

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      Groceries aren’t sub 3%. Energy isn’t sub 3%.

      CPI metrics exclude everything consumers actually use. The data is completely finessed.

      Most Americans are completely unaware of the 4.5 TRILLION the Fed bailed out Wall Street with in 2019

      Fed Finally Identifies Banks that Received $4.5T in Q4 2019 Repo Program

      https://tokenist.com/fed-finally-identifies-banks-received-4-5t-q4-2019-repo-program/

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        Food is under 2%?

        Edit: nvm, just above, 2.2%. Still, def under 3

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          If you honestly believe groceries are only 2.2% higher than they were in 2019/2020, a meaningful discussion is a dubious endeavor.

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            Oh, you don’t understand inflation at all.

            Do you think groceries in 1945 were 3% higher than 1845? Since apparently we’re making meaningless comparisons across years now?

            Inflation at 2-3% is good

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              What? I’m talking about before Jay Powell increased the M2 money supply by $6 Trillion.

              Inflation metrics are year over year. The M2 supply, however was drastically inflated under his tenure, namely 2020-2022. The data you’re citing is completely manipulated.

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                If you honestly believe groceries are only 2.2% higher than they were in 2019/2020, a meaningful discussion is a dubious endeavor.

                My dude, you do not understand inflation or CPI lol

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      According to the way the government runs the numbers now, sure, we are about 3%. With the way the government used to run the numbers, which is more accurate, it’s way higher than that.

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        Not really, no? There’s no index that’s significantly higher than 3%

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          https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts

          This is the way inflation was measured in the 1980s and according to it, we are over ten percent.

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            CPI-U is 3%:

            https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t01.htm

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              Well, it may be at 3%, but I certainly don’t believe that the actual number is 3%. I know my cost of energy and food has gone up by more than 3%.

              Edit: The government last year said it was 8% yet when I recalculated my energy bill it had increased by 20%

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            As to the other metrics noted in that article:

            https://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2014/10/17/shadowstats-and-the-alternate-inflation-myth

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