• Peaty
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    1 year ago

    We literally just witnessed this with COVID shutdown. Im not sure why you think people getting handed money will not increase pricing as that is usually how things work.

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      1 year ago

      No we didn’t. Prices went way up after people had gotten their money from the government. And it really wasn’t that much money.

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        1 year ago

        Yes it is directly because they got that money that prices went up.

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        1 year ago

        It happened because a large number of people had a pool of unspent money, some/much of which was the stimulus packages, who were competing for similar goods such as housing.