My belief is that printing trillions of dollars and growing the money supply by 40% in a short period of time has impacted asset prices, and now consumer prices.
If covid impacted other things (i.e. business), why are all asset prices up well above pre-covid levels.
The impact of the money printing outweighs any other covid impacts. Nothing covid related should tell us that Manhattan real estate should be above pre-covid levels w/ work from home, lockdowns and overall decrease in quality of life. It's the money supply
You might be able to escape with saying 2020 COVID was a true disaster.
In 2021, the government (local and federal) used vaccines as a kudgel to create partisan politics around the logistics industry. Ports were shut down (for no reason), and truckers who didn't want to meet vaccine requirements were barred from entry to major ports such as in California.
In 2020 and 2021 helicopter money designed to help people ended up having a second order effect of making people less likely to work. Even if you made the desired "15 dollars an hour" the left asks for as a "fair wage" for burger flipping you still would make more money being on pandemic assistance.
Moreover, California law in particular has strange environmental regulations that further reduced the availability of trucks. Your average truck is worth a small townhome and you can't just sell it and buy a 2012+ model on a whim.
Indeed, the problem like usual is government interventionism through helicopter money and the manipulation of rates to protect the petrodollar in a crisis. It's not complicated, because like usual the finger can be pointed squarely at the fed and congress. We could've been heading back to normal in 2021 with or without vaccine rates being 99.9%. But the nanny state does not believe in personal responsibility (and neither do their constituents) and so here we are. This was compounded by the incessant bleeting of climate pearl clutchers that further reduced the availability of logistical firepower that could've bailed us out.
Armchair financiers on HN are always full of energy. Considering what we were threatened with at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic (total economic meltdown), 7.5% inflation is downright relaxing.
COVID didn't cause inflation. Helicopter money did. My liquid net worth almost doubled in the middle of a crisis and my inflation hedge (my house) is worth twice what I bought it for.
The average blue collar person doesn't have the benefits we do and can't play the game. 7.5% "inflation" (if you want to call CPI that) is panic inducing for basically anyone else.
It would be easier to dismiss online commenters as "armchair" if the experts at the wheel, with all the data, the models, and the PhDs at their command, were making more accurate predictions than them.
bko|4 years ago
If covid impacted other things (i.e. business), why are all asset prices up well above pre-covid levels.
The impact of the money printing outweighs any other covid impacts. Nothing covid related should tell us that Manhattan real estate should be above pre-covid levels w/ work from home, lockdowns and overall decrease in quality of life. It's the money supply
unknown|4 years ago
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skdlllaaa|4 years ago
In 2021, the government (local and federal) used vaccines as a kudgel to create partisan politics around the logistics industry. Ports were shut down (for no reason), and truckers who didn't want to meet vaccine requirements were barred from entry to major ports such as in California.
In 2020 and 2021 helicopter money designed to help people ended up having a second order effect of making people less likely to work. Even if you made the desired "15 dollars an hour" the left asks for as a "fair wage" for burger flipping you still would make more money being on pandemic assistance.
Moreover, California law in particular has strange environmental regulations that further reduced the availability of trucks. Your average truck is worth a small townhome and you can't just sell it and buy a 2012+ model on a whim.
Indeed, the problem like usual is government interventionism through helicopter money and the manipulation of rates to protect the petrodollar in a crisis. It's not complicated, because like usual the finger can be pointed squarely at the fed and congress. We could've been heading back to normal in 2021 with or without vaccine rates being 99.9%. But the nanny state does not believe in personal responsibility (and neither do their constituents) and so here we are. This was compounded by the incessant bleeting of climate pearl clutchers that further reduced the availability of logistical firepower that could've bailed us out.
jquery|4 years ago
skdlllaaa|4 years ago
COVID didn't cause inflation. Helicopter money did. My liquid net worth almost doubled in the middle of a crisis and my inflation hedge (my house) is worth twice what I bought it for.
The average blue collar person doesn't have the benefits we do and can't play the game. 7.5% "inflation" (if you want to call CPI that) is panic inducing for basically anyone else.
jbay808|4 years ago