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Old 06-04-2022, 11:01 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by GGG View Post
That’s one option if people believe that prices will stabilize. The other is demand increases because people believe prices will be even more expensive tomorrow.
People will run out of money, and their capacity to borrow is dropping with the increasing interest rates. That happens, but is fairly short lived unless wages are somehow keeping up (in which case, people will also stop buying fearing future price increases, as it becomes normalized).
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