Remember: inflation coming down means things get more expensive slower, not that prices come down. We still have a ~~cost of liv~~ greed crisis
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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Don't pretty much all economists recommend some level of inflation? Not as high as we are experiencing now, but not nothing like you're suggesting.
Economists that back an economy built on permanent expanding debt
That might work if wages increased with inflation, but they haven't since I left uni 15 years ago.
Yes because those economists own stocks, which naturally go up when inflation happens. These fools literally hopped onto the status quo bandwagon and I resent them for it
Yes, but the point is that once inflation gets back to ~2% (the bank of England's target) the problem is not solved, everyone is still effectively poorer except the rich, it's just not getting worse
Yes, but food inflation has been so high we can probably handle some limited deflation there. It's also not like someone is going to put off buying some bananas because they think they'll be cheaper next week.
That was a horribly written article. What is this tabloid trash?
Newsthump is a satire site.
I think this is a parody on The Onions classic "'No way to prevent this' says only country where this regularly happens" article they release after mass shootings in the US.
Then it's really bad parody.
Either way, it's poorly written.
Generally Newsthump's headlines are better than their articles. This is not a great example of their headlines