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To: Starboard
Our unfunded liabilities are “only” $123 trillion. Add to that our explosive national debt, currently at $22 trillion and rising fast.

The government will inflate the currency so it can pay the debt load with inflated (devalued) dollars.

It has been doing that for a century or more.as a way out of the dilemma it created.

A bag of penny candy cost 2¢ or 3¢ in 1950 - now it costs $2.00 or more.

The median home price in 1950 was around $6,000.

The median home price today is around $226,000.
(https://www.zillow.com/home-values/)

A new Chevrolet cost about $1,600 in 1950.

A new full size Chevrolet costs about $30,000 today.

In another 50 or 60 years it will cost $600,000.

Median family income 1950 - $3,300

Median family income 2017 - $74,000
(https://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/us/)


63 posted on 04/14/2019 7:52:55 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Give me Norfolk Virginia TideWater 4-10-09)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

The government will inflate the currency so it can pay the debt load with inflated (devalued) dollars.

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Thank you for the illuminating reply. The fact that a government will resort to inflating away their debt is unquestionably true.

I also think that the government finds it politically convenient to understate inflation. As such people don’t grasp or foresee its insidious nature.

Inflation is not a bad thing per se but high inflation can obviously be very damaging and distorting to an economy, and most especially for unprepared individuals. A modest, fixed income can be quickly savaged by rising prices. Its something to bear in mind going forward.


73 posted on 04/19/2019 5:42:41 AM PDT by Starboard
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