Falling prices.....yay!

[Gandalf]

No, I tend not to trust mass governmental data. It tends to be a little suspicious and also seems rather cooked with them doing anything to bolster the books such as counting drugs and prostitution which are supposedly against the law. They shouldn't really arrest you then! Anything to topple the French numbers, eh. Likewise, inflation is a cooked number and has little connection with reality which I think most people on the ground would attest to. Inflation is more than the official figures say and along with wages that do not increase, that inflation becomes a serious burden on people. One of the most obvious signs of inflation is in property and rents. At the end of the day people need somewhere to live and under Thatcher alone rents doubled. Would anyone care to compare the cost of a home or rents since Thatcher? That in itself is crippling inflation. At the end of the day, Kirkland. Inflation is simply about 'Is my cost of living going up?' and most would likely respond with a simple 'Yes'.

[Kirkland Laing]

No, I tend not to trust mass governmental data. It tends to be a little suspicious and also seems rather cooked with them doing anything to bolster the books such as counting drugs and prostitution which are supposedly against the law. They shouldn't really arrest you then! Anything to topple the French numbers, eh. Likewise, inflation is a cooked number and has little connection with reality which I think most people on the ground would attest to. Inflation is more than the official figures say and along with wages that do not increase, that inflation becomes a serious burden on people. One of the most obvious signs of inflation is in property and rents. At the end of the day people need somewhere to live and under Thatcher alone rents doubled. Would anyone care to compare the cost of a home or rents since Thatcher? That in itself is crippling inflation. At the end of the day, Kirkland. Inflation is simply about 'Is my cost of living going up?' and most would likely respond with a simple 'Yes'.

So far you've mentioned chocolate and rents/house prices.

Both of these things have gone up in price but it's due to supply and demand. Nothing to do with governments printing money or anything like that.

Housing in Britain is scare and expensive because of planning regulations and mass immigration. Chocolate is going up in price because of a variety of reasons, poor cocoa harvests and increased demand being two of them.



This isn't going to get through the force field but I'm happy to let events over the next few years speak for themselves. You can continue ranting away about nonexistent hyperinflation while large chunks of the world struggle with actual deflation and start devaluing their currency to try and export the problem somewhere else. I'm not sure if reality will ever make it through your force field but nobody else will be in any doubt as to what's happening.

[Gandalf]

The force is very strong around me. Otherworldly so. If prices suddenly drop significantly lower then I will be more than happy to have been proven wrong on inflation. I do not think there is hyper inflation, but there is significant inflation in the things people need in day to day life. When things shrink and prices go up as in new London flats or chocolate bars, there is inflation. I truly hope there is a massive housing market correction as it would be good for the general population and of course I hope food does get cheaper. But not with a corresponding massive drop in wages as that would be cheating! Inflation is a bad thing, it's only good for shrinking debt, so the twats of the world love it.