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You don't understand inflation, do you?
The slowest loss of buying power in the last three years means very little when it was preceded by absurd inflation since around the covid lockdowns, is my point. Yes it is good news, but often deceiving good news. People dont have more money, their money is just worth slightly more for a slightly longer period of time.
So you're saying, things getting less bad is not good news?
Cancer in remission is actually bad news, because it's just shrinking, and not gone yet?
Inflation is supposed to be at about 2%. That's the goal of the ecb. And if you look at a longer scale, that was met, because the decade preceding covid had hardly any inflation.
You just want to be pessimistic about everything.
I mean .. It's not shrinking though. It's still increasing, just at a slower rate.
So the cancer would still be growing, just not as fast. It's certainly not a remission, as you mentioned.
Also it's mostly due to comparatively low gas and oil prices. If you don't have a car, your heating works with gas and because it was a very mild winter you didn't even need to heat much anyway.. it's basically useless.
Oil and Gas prices going up was also cited as a main driver for the inflation of all sorts of goods, including basic food.
Problem is now "somehow" the prices remain high on these goods whereas the energy prices are back to normal again.
And that's factually not true, because - again - no understanding of economics.
What counts are the real wages. If inflation is 2% and wages rise by 2%, nothing changed.
Real wages dropped due to the high inflation over the last years, but that also turned into higher raises. And over the longer run, 10-20 years, it's not that bad.