1. El origen pandémico y las cadenas de suministro.
La mayoría de los usuarios coinciden en que el cierre de las economías y la posterior reapertura generaron un choque inevitable entre una demanda reprimida y una oferta limitada por la ruptura de la logística global.
- Yeah but your forgetting that the economy in 2020 was stagnant due to covid. Meaning the economy was unable to move in any direction. Inflation was bound to happen once covid was over and the economy started to resume.
- All major industrial economies had roughly the same inflation path, despite different monetary and fiscal policies. This tells us the inflation was primarily about covid, not policy.
- The covid supply chain chaos followed by the stimulus checks in the us created a situation where a whole load of people ended up with finance on cars they shouldnt have been able to get finance on.
2. El debate sobre la "Greedflation" y los beneficios corporativos.
Existe una fuerte corriente de opinión que señala a las grandes empresas por utilizar la inflación como una excusa para aumentar sus márgenes de ganancia de manera desproporcionada.
- Corporations hid behind post-covid inflation to continue to raise prices and shrink amounts. Opposition and consumers blamed it on the leaders bidenflation, justinflation.
- It was corporate greed. Wow i dont remember inflation hitting 200. Its almost like greed was using post covid inflation for cover.
- Companies deciding to exploit market power to raise prices seems like the most logical explanation for much of the post covid inflation.
3. Estímulos fiscales frente a la estabilidad económica.
Se discute si las ayudas financieras directas a la población fueron el motor principal de la inflación o una medida necesaria para evitar una catástrofe social mayor durante los confinamientos.
- The only way to have avoided inflation post covid would have been to crash the economy. What was avoidable was cutting child poverty then more than doubling it.
- The covid checks caused a lot of inflation since they money was basically just printed. Deflation essentially never happens in a functional economy.
- I bet if you polled people about what caused inflation they would say that it was spending. In that same poll if you asked them if the covid bailout was enough they would say no.
4. El impacto electoral y la reacción contra los incumbentes.
El descontento por el costo de vida se identifica como el factor determinante en la derrota de diversos gobiernos alrededor del mundo, independientemente de su ideología política.
- Incumbents lost in all notable liberal democracies as a response to covid inflation. Theres no reason to think that the us was the exception.
- Inflation sucked. It didnt matter that the us economy recovered from covid better than other nations. Inflation sucked and the party in power was going to pay.
- Voters everywhere around the world were sick of inflation and covid and took it out on incumbents. Every incumbent party up for election in 2023-4 lost for exactly that reason.
5. La psicología del consumidor y la permanencia de los precios.
Los usuarios expresan frustración porque, aunque la tasa de inflación disminuya, los precios nominales de productos básicos como alimentos y vivienda no regresan a los niveles previos a 2020.
- What people fail to recognize is that prices never went down after covid, so inflation is compounding the damage its doing to household budgets.
- The rate of inflation may go down, but people absolutely notice that the price of certain things they notice every day coffee, housing, eggs, etc has risen exorbitantly.
- Inflation is psychological. Stores get to aw, shucks. Their way to new price point after that.