Another company took advantage of inflation and now regrets it

Originally posted by: CharlesII

As to the Inflation Reduction Act causing inflation, it certainly did not relieve the inflation we experienced under Biden.   It was cynically renamed Inflation Reduction Act from the Build Back Better program at the last minute to make voters think the government was there to help.  It's just another 1.2 trillion dollar spending boondoggle that will further devalue our currency if we continue to borrow to pay for misplaced priorities ripe with waste fraud and abuse..  Now.  Off my soap box.  

 

 


Of course it was renamed the Inflation Reduction Act for optics, I'll fill that under the "Captain Obvious" category.

 

What you view as misplaced priorities some people view as essential priorities, but if you believe that everyone who doesn't agree with you is completely wrong so be it. I'm not a big fan of the IRA, but I do support the Infrastructure Bill and the CHIPs Act.

Originally posted by: CharlesII

But I'll leave you with a few words of wisdom from one of Americas most brilliant economists who helped to revolutionize thinking about the root causes of Inflation and especially the Fed's role in the Great Depression.

 

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.” 

 

 


I'll leave you with some contemporary thoughts on Milton's theory.
 
The Truth About Inflation: Why Milton Friedman Was Wrong, Again - Evonomics
 
"Milton Friedman has been dead for more than a decade, but his ghost still haunts us. In the 1960s, Friedman declared that inflation is ‘always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon’ — a problem of printing too much money. Since then, whenever inflation rears its head, you can count on someone to reanimate Friedman’s ghost and blame the government for spending too much.
If only inflation were so simple."
 
 
 
I think it's valuable not to set things in stone, be it economic theories or long-standing scientific "truths", as we have seen, the great thing about the human race is that we grow and discover new things that turn our former beliefs on their heads.  Maybe it's a liberal thing that embraces that, conservatives are seemingly the ones who will tell us why it won't work, while everyone else is figuring out how to make it work.
 
I've asked you some questions in my post, to be clear they're rhetorical, I enjoyed the conversation. Thanks.
Originally posted by: David Miller

    Some????  Did you just wake up from a 4 year nap?


Shush, the grownups are talking.

Originally posted by: MaxFlavor

Shush, the grownups are talking.


  The noise coming from you sounds like farting....


Originally posted by: David Miller

  The noise coming from you sounds like farting....


Hahaha, wow thanks for supporting my insult directed at you. That is classic!

Originally posted by: MaxFlavor

Hahaha, wow thanks for supporting my insult directed at you. That is classic!


 Are you really that ignorant?

Originally posted by: Mark

I guess that long post I did last week explaining that decrasing demand is the only thing that can lower prices must have did some good. He was clueless that demand had anything to do with prices prior to that.


Mark, it's called supply AND demand for a reason.

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