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Posted on 12/02/2025 9:25:40 AM PST by JV3MRC
Sometimes leftist media outlets try to out-dumb themselves like it’s some sort of prestigious competition for who can churn out the most ignoramus hot take of the year. The Washington Post is definitely in the running for first place with its latest stupidity about inflation.
Post reporter Julie Zauzmer Weil published a piece of propaganda with a headline that defied any modicum of common sense: “Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do.”
Her sub-headline was just as bad: “Though Americans might be clamoring for relief on groceries, housing and energy costs, economists say there’s a bigger downside to falling prices.”
Imagine being a Post editor with at least a functioning brain agreeing that this insanity was actually going to go over well with the readership. This is just as kooky as when MSNBC tweeted out November 8, 2021, that the spiking inflation running amok under President Joe Biden was “a good thing.”
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Gotta spin Bidenflation going down somehow
Theres too much consumin’ going on here! Sen. Earnest Hollings, via El Rushbo
They see prices going lower therefore they’re bad
I related news, I think I’d prefer not go through a massive nuclear war. But I’m probably wrong about that. I’ll wait and see if the journalists can set me straight.
It depends on what you are buying.
If you buy a stock at $50/share, and if it goes to $48, then $45, then $42, and further down, you’ll probably be unhappy.
Let’s create affordable houses:
2026 $420,000
2027 $400,000
2028 $380,000
2029 $360,000
2030 $340,000
2028 $320,000
2029 $300,000
2030 $280,000
2032 $260,000
2033 $250,000
2034 $245,000
....
Young people who bought in recent years would find themselves underwater big time.
If house prices gradually fall, first time buyers will avoid buying, so few new dwellings would get built. That would result in rents going up.
If house prices fall gradually or big time, mortgage downpayment requirements would probably soar.
Deflation is much worse than inflation.
I'll tell that to my local butcher.
Yup. I’m just beside myself with my life insurance premium going up 40% and Mrs rktmans’s health premium going from $490 to $670/mth. Good times. Fookin’ idjits them journalists. 😠
The Federal Reserve aims for an inflation rate between 2 to 3 percent.
liberals keep forcing insurance companies to cover more and more things, so rates keep going up.
The media doesn’t do this to Democrats.
During Democrat presidencies, journalists invent new words like “funemployment” so that it can soften the blow for their precious democrats.
But here, lower prices is helping Trump. So to soften the blow, you stupid voters should demand higher prices!
Journalism is destroying America.
I remember Teddy and his buddy in the Senate, were caught canoodling a young staffer on a small yacht, just off shore by camera. A reporter asked Hollins for a comment on that.
Fritz said: I see Senatuh Kennedy has changed his position on offshore drillin’.
I think all of the leftists are back on LSD, again.
Up is down, down is up
“Turn on, tune in, drop out”
Or, people with a $420K house worth $240K, default and bite the bullet, and prices come down to sanity at a quicker pace. I fail to see how falling housing can be anything but a plus for the country. Tough titties for suckers who bought instead of rented. It is just life on planet Earth. I sold a house I bought for 189K in 2005, for $110K in 2013. I then downgraded to a nice double wide in a park for $18K cash. Good thing, because I now cannot work because of disability, which happened 2 years later. I lost, but I gained. Just like anyone will, and survive.
Washington Post must think you’ll be more ready for higher prices as you get older? By then everything will be higher than ever with added inflation. WP has some strange ideas, I think. Maybe they are considering about what could happen if prices are forced lower because of the quantity & quality issue. We already are running into those issues.
“Deflation is much worse than inflation.”
Exactly.
Add to that, people are so fundamentally stupid about economics that they think lowering the inflation rate means that prices are going down!
Getting elected requires:
1. buying more votes if you are a Democrat
2. keeping the Democratic base happy and at home if you are a Republican
3. keeping essential workers [teachers & cops] paid
4. keeping the hospitals open
5. keeping the stock market up
....
Keeping the Washington Post afloat and getting paid by the Washington Post requires ever greater fleecing of the rubes.
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