Americans Continue to Name Inflation as Top Financial Problem

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Americans Continue to Name Inflation as Top Financial Problem
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Stagflation is high inflation, low growth. One of the warning signs is intractable inflation because it forces a demand crisis once prices get high enough. That causes low growth while inflation is still running away. So yes we're in danger of Stagflation.

You can't get 2024 numbers for most things because it's still 2024. Unless you personally call up an organization that does the tracking to get monthly or quarterly numbers. And unless it's going to drop the price by 20% this year then it's not going back to where it was pre-pandemic.

Again, I'm not sure why you're fighting so hard. We knew there was something going on with inflation not responding. This means we can fix it with new policy and subsidies.

But inflation is only 1% above target?

It's not going to be where it was pre-pandemic, nothing is. But Austin property prices may be flat for the whole year, if not negative.

You don't need to call up any organization, just scrape Zillow, lol

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/property-value/article-13210091/austin-housing-boom-bust-pandemic.html

Just look at the more recent graphs

Considering there was already an unreasonable rise in rents from 2008 on, yeah we really need to actually go back on this one. Accepting the standard corporate position of prices only go up is part of how we got here in the first place.

And it's fine if you want to scrape Zillow's information and do your own spreadsheet. But the Daily Mail would have us believe Austin is in the middle of it's own little 2008 style housing meltdown. If that's true then this really is an exception to the rule right now and we should go back to talking national numbers.

Prices only go up because the amount of dollars only goes up. It's a built-in feature