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why must everything go up?
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Not everything goes up. Cash assets buy less and debt costs less to repay.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0
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Thrugelmir wrote: »Inflation is a post war investion .
Inflation has existed for thousands of years, for as long as governments have secretly debased the currency as a sneaky method of taxation.
It has now, in moderation, become a necessary evil in order to underpin a consumer society, dependent on creating new unrealisable dreams to stimulate growth, which underpins a consumer society, which creates new dreams, which underpins ....... etc etc for ever.
If we stop the merry-go-round now the economy will collapse.This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0
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