Sure, that's why the stockmarket has been going steadily up despite the fact that we've been in a serious recession if not borderline depression for the past two years. Even the other day when their new jobs numbers reported the worst miss of expectations in 23 years, the market went up.
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Ladislaus, the stock market is going up because of inflation too. Stock prices are getting inflated like everything else, except that they started going up sooner than other things because I suppose they are further upstream (towards the printing presses) than consumer goods. If you look at stock valuations, the P/E ratios are incredibly high. That means the price for the stock is extremely high. High prices indicate inflation, no?
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It's all fake. They just claim that they have a certain money supply.
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What exactly is fake? You think the government didn't actually print all that money last year?
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FIAT money doesn't exist and so normal economic rules don't apply.
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If FIAT money doesn't exist, what do you use to pay with when you go to the store?
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The rules of economics with regard to inflation apply to whatever is being used as a medium of exchange, whether it's fiat currency, gold doubloons, German marks, wampum, Kennedy half-dollars, salt, or
Rai. If the supply of whatever is being used as a medium of exchange goes up and the quantity of purchasable goods and services remains the same, the prices will go up. It's basic math.