• Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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    The price of cars is going up so what you should do is take the car you have and turn it into cash. Yeah, fucking great idea.

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      Actually, now would be the perfect time to hold on to your car, since the Federal Reserve is going to drop interest rates soon and therefore increase inflation. And then just before they increase rates again, you can sell your car and then buy another one. When they cars get cheaper again. You can use our broken system to your advantage, but it does take work. As an example, I purchased a home in early 2022 and have only been living here for two years and already have $30,000 worth of equity in this house due to inflation. You are basically shorting the USD by buying a house because a FIXED rate mortgage cant change and cause your payment to go nuts.

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        Those calculating the fixed rate are accounting for increased inflation. Trying to beat them at their own game is highly dependant on luck.

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          Fair enough, but I suspect that inflation is going to go well beyond their control, and they won’t think to have calculated for that much. Taking my house, for example, the interest rate on it is a little over 4%, which means that if inflation is above 4%, that they lose money. According to the government provided numbers, inflation is below 4%. However, the real numbers are quite a bit higher.

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            You could very well be right. However, this depends on other factors too, such as assuming you have opportunity to grow your wages in correspondence with inflation, which might not be true for a lot of people. In Norway we have the term “reallønn” (real wages) that is basically wage in relation to inflation, which one can see almost always decreases in times of high inflation (on average). So for those that have leverage to get raises beating inflation, high inflation could entail a good time to take up loans. Still, central banks also almost always respond with increasing rents subsequently, hence the answer might be maybe not so much given that paydown times often are 30 years or so.

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    To be fair, I’d rather put my dog down than put it through chemo.

    Humans can understand the agony is for a reason. Your pet can’t. Don’t keep your pets alive for yourself.

    Also, is it really so shitty for a publication to provide tips on cutting costs when the economy is in the shitter? Im sure most news sites are barely hanging on by a thread, so it’s not like they’re benefiting from the economy being fucked.

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        This. The primary goal of chemotherapy in pets is to minimize symptoms to improve their quality of life. It’s nowhere near the high dosage that humans undergo in order to completely eradicate their cancer.

        My cat is technically on chemotherapy. She gets a pill 3 times a week and a blood test every 3 months to check that it isn’t causing issues with her bone marrow.

        So far, no symptoms. Without it, she’d probably have died a year and a half ago. When I used to hear about a pet getting chemo, I had a mental image of a really sick pet, but it’s pretty much the opposite.

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      Yes, it is, and you’re a huge bootlicker for trying to side with fucking Bloomberg, of all sources.

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        Chemo is awful to go through. If my pet got cancer I rather make it quick for them rather than prolong the agony.

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          Not looking for sympathy here. Had to put one of mine down for the same reason. The very said that maybe she would get better, but she was completely miserable already and wouldn’t have understood.

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          I don’t think you should put dogs through chemo. I also don’t think Bloomberg is anything but evil pro corporate propaganda. And thirstily jamming the cocks of the elites down your throat every chance you get is cowardly and shameful and I’m not going to pretend that it isn’t.

          Also, trying to give a dog medical attention isn’t animal abuse that deserves jail time, shut up forever with that shit. What a stupid thing to say.

  • jelloeater - Ops Mgr@lemmy.world
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    I mean, Bloomberg and The Economist are two of the most old rich white man places you can get your news.

    Do NOT eat the rich, they are bad for your health 🤣

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    Bread? Typical bread in America is not normal bread. It’s too chemical.

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      Not sure what you mean by “typical bread,” but the US is lousy with bakeries that make fresh bread. Even corporate owned supermarkets have them inside, and they bake fresh bread and things daily.

      Nobody is forcing you to buy Wonderbread.

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        Often the flour that they’re using is bromated flour so you don’t get away from it even when fresh baked.

        Bromated flower is banned in Canada, the UK, the EU, Brazil and China… But not the U.S.

        So yes the bread you get in the United States is specially chemically because of this.

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      lol you can get plenty of good bread in the US. try going to asia where its basically a luxury item and way too sweet

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    Or maybe switch to a currency where the inflation rate is not controlled by a few very high-up people that extract the wealth from the poor and middle class and move it upward towards themselves such as Monero. Monero’s inflation rate is 0.85% and will continue falling closer and closer to zero as time goes on until a balance point is reached where an equal number of coins are lost through negligence as are created.