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Why Inflation Is A Runaway Freight Train
Nation & State ^ | 11-30-2021 | Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog

Posted on 11/30/2021 5:21:22 AM PST by blam

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1 posted on 11/30/2021 5:21:22 AM PST by blam
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To: blam
Rising wages are good thing and long overdue.

Look at that gap between wages and prcutivit. That's scary and a Marxist dream.

2 posted on 11/30/2021 5:28:08 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: blam

“so appraisers set the value of the other 95 homes at $600,000.”

The author got housing so wrong he threw his whole article into disbelief

It involves a little simple arithmetic seemingly beyond his grasp.

The $600 k sale price is the product of area in square feet multiplied by a cost per square foot. Thus, the projected value for the 95 is the area times the price per square foot adjusted for any of several factors.


3 posted on 11/30/2021 5:34:02 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Free Republic has gone to hell is a Covid handbasket)
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To: blam

Jim Grant:
The Fed that is doubling its balance sheet in 18 months, the treasury that is issuing trillions of dollars in debt, the proceeds of which are paying people not to work, the breakdown in supply chains, the constellation of these episodes in phenomenon What did you expect?
Inflation is a moral problem. It is something for nothing, a form of theft, a form of unlegislated tax.”
IMHO 2021- The Horse of Inflation is Out of the Barn (1967 Martin Fed Chairman)
Some think this Omicron virus is an attempt to curb demand. TPTB certainly don’t want to upset Wall Street by raising Interest Rates.


4 posted on 11/30/2021 5:42:36 AM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: blam

Bookmark


5 posted on 11/30/2021 5:42:43 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: bert

Earlier this year, my real estate agent friend sold an 850 sq ft fixer upper home in Tampa at 394,000. CASH. Comp that!


6 posted on 11/30/2021 5:44:38 AM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: blam

The TV example is wrong on so many levels. TVs as a case in point are literally financed by the wealthy who will pay $20,000 or $15,000 for the latest greatest, thus paying for the R&D. As the costs are recouped, the price decreases and the volume of TVs increases. Each generation of TV follows the same path. A TV that cost $20,000 two years ago is now about $5,000 and dropping like a rock. The TV that cost $20,000 five years ago is $1,000 if it is mass marketed at all.


7 posted on 11/30/2021 5:56:23 AM PST by Jumper
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We need a tariff on TVs to promote domestic production.


8 posted on 11/30/2021 5:59:18 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: blam
Inflation, deflation, stagflation–they’ve all got proponents.

Can't we have a spate of just plain FLATION? My ears and mind need a est.

9 posted on 11/30/2021 6:35:23 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: blam
Excessive inflation will FORCE working people to work much harder and faster to try and just keep up. That is what the elites want.
10 posted on 11/30/2021 6:44:17 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: blam

How much more will everyone pay because of Biden’s policies?


11 posted on 11/30/2021 7:06:30 AM PST by FreedBird
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To: bert

Real estate taxes are legally supposed to be based on market value not replacement cost nor new construction cost.


12 posted on 11/30/2021 10:30:21 AM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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In Tennessee, the State makes an assessment based on a number of factors


13 posted on 11/30/2021 10:48:30 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Free Republic has gone to hell is a Covid handbasket)
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My county tried to make a cost based assessment just after I bought my house through a very long arms transaction.

I had to go down there and show them the State Law.

If there hasn’t been a recent transaction, they are allowed to use various methods to estimate market value.


14 posted on 11/30/2021 10:55:45 AM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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