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scoofyyesterday at 11:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

Economic stimulus does nothing about affordability of goods in a shortage. Quite the opposite, economic stimulus just causes inflation for goods in a shortage. Which is exactly what we’ve seen for 15 years.


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broken-kebabyesterday at 11:33 PM

It's a bit of evasion. If you support the claim that it's housing which keeps Western societies birthrate low, you building your theory on the same sand of "economy prevents youth from having kids".

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peytonyesterday at 11:34 PM

Yep, the real answer’s electricity.