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by tuberelay 2415 days ago
If you print money and then give it all to big banks who use it to ramp up the price of equities, it never really reaches the average person for them to be able to ramp up the price of the basket of things which CPI measures. Inflation here is seen in the stock market tripling, but that isn't included in government measures.
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Because it's not inflation. It would be an asset bubble. Except it's not even that -- the P/E ratio on stock is high now because the economic news has been good, but it's nowhere near dotcom bubble levels (https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio).
I don't know, I mean, things like rent and healthcare costs seem to be increasing at runaway speeds. I'm sure lots of other things are too, just not TVs or whatever.