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14914 Re: Housing
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Re: Housing

By: De_Composed in GRITZ
Mon, 15 Dec 25 6:24 AM
Msg. 14896 of 16631
(This msg. is a reply to 14882 by monkeytrots)
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Note that I've edited my post. - De

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Re: “The Thesis: Immigration and Illegal Immigration are the overwhelming principle cause of Housing Inflation.
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the GOVERNMENT CAUSED HOUSING INFLATION pain is spread in a double-dipping penalty on the rest of US in the U.S.

Grok ALL the preceding - I haven't ... but am pretty sure the above is difficult to argue against.”I'll take a stab at it.

There is no such thing as "housing inflation."

In a system with finite money, when the price of something goes up, people either do not buy it or do not buy something else. They only have so much money, after all. Thus, the price increase spurs people to make decisions on where their LIMITED money will go. When they stop buying something else, those prices fall so that there is no net increase in prices. No inflation.

Inflation is always systemic. Either the price of everything as a whole goes up and inflation is present, or it does not. The cause of inflation is not immigrants. It is always an increase in the money supply beyond what is appropriate to counter improved national production. Thus, if production goes up 50%, an increase in the money supply by 50% will keep systemic prices stable. Any money supply increase beyond that produces inflation.

I absolutely agree that the government is causing inflation. But it's not "housing" inflation or inflation that targets any given product or industry. Inflation doesn't work that way.

What we're probably experiencing is government policies that promote housing price increases. But that's different.