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Americans need an extra $11,400 today just to afford the basics

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-households-need-extra-11400-these-states-its-even-higher/

Compared with 2021, the typical household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain their standard of living, analysis shows.

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MenKlash

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I mean if you’re gonna criticize the whole capitalist system sure.

The Federal Reserve purchases assets and thereby increasing bank reserves.
The banks expand credit and consequently the money supply.
All prices are raised, and the rate of interest is artificially lowered.
Misleading signals to businessmen starts to emerge, causing them to make malinvestments.
Businesses overinvest in capital goods and underinvest in consumer goods.
As the "time preference" of the public have not really got lower, consuming is preferred over saving.
There is a lack of enough saving-and-investment to buy all the new capital goods.
Then, "depression" originates in order to reestablish the consumer's old time-preference proportions.
The banks return to their natural and desired course of credit expansion...

FIAT money is independent of capitalism. Its coercive existence leads to distortions of relative prices and the production system, as government and its central bank will always tend to be inflationary.

Ranvier

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Exactly. I just meant for the context of the posted article about inflation and our existing economic system, fed did a decent job at bringing it down without crashing the economy, unlike the last time they gave this a go. I included the disclaimer at the start of the comment because I didn't want to imply I was in support of grow at all costs eat the entire earth capitalism though. Not sure how long that paradigm is gonna be able to continue. It all comes back to eat the rich in the end.