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Comment by barking

Inflation isn't a dirty word to me.

It would be really good for me and people like me. I have a mortgage that's taking a huge chunk out of my income and will do for the next 20 years while I'd get about half what I paid if I sold the house now.

Inflation would be bad for the people living off their savings, generally the elderly.

But then I think they in turn benefitted from an inter-generational wealth transfer in the 70s when there was double digit inflation for most of the decade.

parent barking 14 years ago

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