[Steely Tom]

Get ready for another round of inflation.

Before the last “quantitative easing,” a deli lunch cost $5.

A few years after it, the same lunch cost $10.

I imagine in a few more years, it will cost $20.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Get ready for another round of inflation.

With all the funny money being thrown out there in the past couple of decades, one would think inflation would be so rampant that an egg would cost a hundred bucks. I still don't know what's keeping it in check. Perhaps the fact that markets are all global and the pain is being spread around the entire world community, rather than in the place of origin. I don't know. It's weird.

[af_vet_1981]

Before the last “quantitative easing,” a deli lunch cost $5. A few years after it, the same lunch cost $10. I imagine in a few more years, it will cost $20.

Please provide evidence for the claim that a deli lunch doubled in the three years from 2008/9 to 2011/12.

The History of Inflation Since the 2008 Financial Crisis

... After the stock market crashed and the country entered the Great Recession, we also had a period of deflation throughout 2009. Some inflation rates were as low as -2.1 percent and the annual inflation rate for the year was -0.4 percent on average.

Inflation rates have varied between 2010 and 2017 as the country struggled to recover from the financial crisis. In 2011, the average annual inflation rate was 3.2 percent, and in 2015 the rate was 0.1 percent.

[4Liberty]

This money printing is SO WRONG. If people are demanding cash at the banks, they should CALL IN LOANS. If their loans were too risky to try and call in, what does that tell us? They should not have been issued in the first place.

Trump's biggest weakness is monetary policy - he seems clueless about it!

Here goes the Fed, monetizing 700 billion in government debt today. Just what the HELL??!

[ronbivtx]

Oh BS.

[BusterDog]

“ Get ready for another round of inflation.”

Get ready for complete asset deflation across the board. Cash is king.

[PeterPrinciple]

Get ready for another round of inflation.

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Defining inflation as:

A lot of money seeking a place to land.

Where will it try to land?

Real Estate? My real estate mutual funds have done well and didn’t drop as much in this crises. I have rental properties that are returning me about 6% to what I consider fair market value. But that 6% is a return to my labor, money and mgt decisions. What stops me from buying more rental property is the growth in regulations and I am getting older

Stock Market? The stock market has inflated it’s way to high prices, not earned it in my opinion

new small business? only if the regulations are reduced. This crises might be an opening for that with Trump in place

Spend it/consume it? This creates a lot of activity, but does not create wealth.

Any other thoughts?