Comment on Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

• P1r4nha@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At least inflation went down, but with ever increasing rental cost the picture probably doesn’t look much better.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Inflation didn’t even go down, it’s just increasing at a slower rate. Things are still getting more expensive compared to how much money people have available.

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    • mars296@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What you are describing is inflation going down. Things going back to pre-pandemic prices would be deflation. With the government targeting 2% inflation in an ideal situation, deflation is not going to happen.

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      • Nudding@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The proper way to say it to avoid confusion is that inflation slowed.

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Going down is a misleading term that makes it sound like it IS deflation, though.

        “Slowing down” would be much more illustrative, or at least “decreasing”

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    • P1r4nha@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Right… usually people talk about the inflation rate, not the overall devaluation of the currency. I wasn’t trying to suggestion there’s a deflation with the dollar.

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  • Shalakushka@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Every normal person who reads this understands you mean there is a lower rate of inflation than previously, the people replying to you are fucking dense.

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