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- turgidanklebrace [none/use name]·8 months ago
- Inflation and corporate opportunism causes goods and services to become wildly expensive.
- Discretionary spending collapses due to exorbitant costs, but essential consumption remains steady or increases.
- Cost of extraneous goods and services decreases due to reduced demand.
- Paul Krugman narrows CPI to exclude 50%+ of household consumption, focusing only on commodities with falling demand.
- Victory declared.