• Num10ck@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    during those years the corporate/investors focus was on market share growth, so they purposely went for low prices or free when possible. when the money spigot turned off things switched from growth to profit/dividend and consumers are stuck.

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      Yes, the low interest rates we had for years meant basically free money for all these companies in addition to the low car loan and mortgage rates that the rest of us benefitted from. Interest rates being low was a tool used to pull us out of the recession but nobody had the balls to raise them back when things turned around because you can’t win elections by forcing people to take their medicine.

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      6 months ago

      It’s the opposite, inflation actually decreased after the rate hikes.

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          6 months ago

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          We had the most inflation in 2022, then the Fed increased rates and the inflation went lower as the rates went higher

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            You can’t just throw an image up. You have to source it or we’re going to assume you made it in MSPaint. But you’re already showing signs of not understanding what inflation is. It is not some stand alone year by year metric. It’s a velocity measurement. Like your car’s speedometer. You drove X number of miles in Y time. Instead here it’s you rose X points in 1 year. The previous points do not go away. The wage increases from year 4 do not magically erase inflation from years 1-3, unless they beat year 4 inflation by the the sum of inflation from years 1-3.

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                Where in my comment do I even mention interest rates? At any rate, you’re not wrong that they’re supposed to curb inflation but they haven’t. You’re own source says-

                Leila Bengali decomposes inflation into interest-rate responsive and unresponsive categories. (whether each inflation category has historically declined >after a surprise interest rate hike)

                Current excess inflation is entirely due to the unresponsive categories.

                That’s that flat red section. It’s unresponsive to the rate change. You can see the blue section responded even before the FED actually made the change. That’s when the FED made statements about raising the rate. So we can see that the responsive section was very responsive. But the unresponsive section is keeping rates from properly coming down.

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                  When the Fed makes statements, banks already respond because it affects the curve. If you expect higher rates in the future, you wouldn’t accept longer duration bonds right now for the current smaller rate.

                  So a statement that rates will be increased actually moves them for anything other than the current over night rates

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                    Yes, that’s the blue section. The Red section it turns out is the housing sector, that DGAF because they’re heavily coordinating prices and there’s no cheaper alternative.