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I have to point out here that this is exactly what most people with severe financial problems do.

And by the way, there is a simple reason why a consumer price index is used to measure inflation: You can't eat property, stocks, gold, and bitcoin. The CPI reflects what the average person buys, not the problems of people with too much money on their hands.

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Thomas Baumgartner
Thomas Baumgartner

Written by Thomas Baumgartner

Physicist (PhD), engineer, software developer, data manager / analysist, photographer, musician, and (as of late) writer. Lives in Vienna, Austria.

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