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customerserviceguy

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3. This is why post-Covid inflation

Reply to Walleye (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 3, 2025, 04:27 PM

Aug 2025

freaked out so many voters. For about forty years, we had an economy that produced around two or three percent inflation, and people built that into their expectations.

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Stagflation fears are back [View all] applegrove Aug 2025 OP

It occurred to me that a large percentage of the adult population wasn't alive the first time around Walleye Aug 2025 #1

That's so true. Anyone under 55 would not remember it. applegrove Aug 2025 #2

This is why post-Covid inflation customerserviceguy Aug 2025 #3

Yeah, I remember in the 80s 16 per cent interest rate on mortgages Walleye Aug 2025 #14

Yeah, I thought I was lucky customerserviceguy Aug 2025 #15

As I recall customerserviceguy Aug 2025 #4

But higher prices, think tomato tariffs, on a whole applegrove Aug 2025 #5

Possibly customerserviceguy Aug 2025 #7

Natural gas then. Trump is apparently pushing to export more applegrove Aug 2025 #9

Is there a shortage of natural gas? customerserviceguy Aug 2025 #10

Natural gas markets: Price swings amid a shifting global landscape applegrove Aug 2025 #11

We do: tariffs NickB79 Aug 2025 #6

That still remains to be seen customerserviceguy Aug 2025 #8

For many goods, there are no domestic alternatives NickB79 Aug 2025 #13

True customerserviceguy Aug 2025 #16

Trumpy FAFO'd with the tariffs. raccoon Aug 2025 #12