Key Points
- As shoppers await price cuts, retailers like Home Depot say their prices have stabilized and some national consumer brands have paused price increases or announced more modest ones.
- Yet some industry watchers predict deflation for food at home later this year.
- Falling prices could bring new challenges for retailers, such as pressure to drive more volume or look for ways to cover fixed costs, such as higher employee wages.
But it will and there’s plenty of precedent, like Weimar Republic.
That’s not how that works. That’s not at all how that works.
Right… Well, enlighten us all! Maybe you’ll get a prize or something for disproving economists!
Waving your hands around and saying “Wiemar Germany inflation” is the economic equivalent of “Rome fell because feminisim/immigration/too many homosexuals/not enough homosexuals/Christianity/didn’t use Heron’s steam engine/lack of Starbucks”. It’s brought out by people with an agenda and a willingness to twist any historical fact to make things fit that agenda.
No, that was because of high volumes of money printing to pay debts.
Yeah, debts to workers.
Are you just making up “facts” as the contradictions flow? Or did someone else make up these “facts” and you just parrot them?
Debts to other countries. Apparently, you don’t know the first thing about how that happened.