schizoidman@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoChina's Xi Jinping asked 'What’s so bad about deflation?' amid economic slowdown, report saysfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down17file-textcross-posted to: worldnews@lemmy.ml
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minus-squarecircuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56arrow-down7·5 days agoI’m glad this got press. Such slowdowns tend to be good for the average person. They’re bad for speculators, investors, shareholders – mostly rich people who are too moneyblind to see that endless growth is untenable. To those people, I say: fuck you.
minus-squareCorkyskog@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·4 days agoYour thinking of disinflation, not deflation… Ask the average person how great the Great Depression really was to live through.
minus-squarehark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·4 days agoDeflation was a symptom, not the cause, of the great depression.
I’m glad this got press.
Such slowdowns tend to be good for the average person.
They’re bad for speculators, investors, shareholders – mostly rich people who are too moneyblind to see that endless growth is untenable. To those people, I say: fuck you.
Your thinking of disinflation, not deflation…
Ask the average person how great the Great Depression really was to live through.
Deflation was a symptom, not the cause, of the great depression.