• FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    So what makes the stuff stores buy more expensive? Like you can create a chain of price raising as far as you want but ultimately it’s just someone deciding to raise prices and that creating inflation.

    Again, only a handful of countries own US debt and I don’t even know how US debt interest rates are going to connect to inflation in other countries. Like China and Japan are the largest debt holders and their inflation is vastly different.

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      2 months ago

      Nobody said US debt, it’s USD debt, this is basic international economics knowledge.

      Inflation is the loss of purchasing power of money, not somebody raising prices. Inflating the money supply leads to loss of purchasing power.

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        2 months ago

        Inflating money only loses purchasing power if it’s tied to the value of something else as I originally said. That was literally my original point.

        And what do you mean by USD debt?

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          2 months ago

          Money is always tied to the value of things, so according to you inflating the money supply always leads to money losing purchasing power.

          Debt denominated in USD