We are fat and getting fatter, food inflation is a total joke for mostof us. We should use the cost of a 2500 calorie per day cost to really determine food inflation, not the constantly increasing pig out most of us consume.
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I didn't read all the comments, so sorry if this is redundant. I think we should apply the authors approach to Social Security. Let's just print the Social Security checks and eliminate the Social Security taxes and cancel the debt owed to Social Security. This would immediately decrease the debt, stimulate the economy with lower taxes, safeguard social security forever, and have very little inflationairy impact due to lower comsumption by the elderly! Probably would need some sort of Constitutional Amendment, but I think we could really fix a lot of problems without impacting the overall economic system with this approach!
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Everything is great! If the Congress can just pass a liberal immigration plan, we can start moving our median age lower, that will really help the economy and help pay for SS and medicare while increasing consumption dramatically!
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Doug, Thanks, great data as usual. Do you know if the slope of the linear regression line on the weekly unemployment chart is the same as the US population growth?
Consumption drives investment, government spending drives consumption. Why has this recovery been so weak? Because consumption is so weak due to the combination of the Bush recession along with the aging of the baby boomers. As we age, we consume less. The only real longterm way out of the current slow economy is immigration of young to replace our aging boomers. Government debt has currently nothing to do with the slow economy, the only impact would be if interest rates rise, something that looks a long way off.
No inflation, no risk, just profits. Slow growth caused by aging populations worldwide will keep inflation low. Older people desperate for risk free returns will keep treasury prices high. We are a very long way from anything risk of high inflation.
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