2025 Federal Pay Raise

[AB19]

This isn't a correct representation of the economy at all. "If you have a strong, healthy economy, home prices would have remained in reach for far more Americans." How'd you come up with that? Sounds like something that you're saying just because you want it to be true. The stock market has been very strong, which gives people with money even more money, which lets them pay more for houses, which drives up housing costs (foreign and corporate investments are also part of this).
Also, gov't spending can be a cause of inflation, but was not the primary factor if the past few years. Covid supply chain issues and corporate profiteering caused the majority of that. Supply/logistics are pretty much back to normal now, which is why it has dropped back down a lot.

Calm down commie don't you know everything is the governments fault

 

[32andBelow]

Idk man. I’m just a bit jaded by the quality of trainees my facility has had lately. And the amount of scheming of seen so they won’t certify so they can keep their weekends off and work 9-5 and have the holidays off and not be CIC

We need to start trusting people to do their job. And if their job is to assign them training or certify them or approve their leave then that’s on them. We need to advocate for a regular good faith controller/trainee to get what they deserve.

 

[Soul_Controller]

The deficit is up this year but inflation is down.
Saying spending causes inflation is like saying the sun makes the earth warm. It's true but it doesn't explain why it's 40 degrees today. It's generic in the long run bullshit.

 

[blarg]

"Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can 'create' money. Any other attribution to other groups of inflation is wrong. Consumers don't produce it. Producers don't produce it. Trade unions don't produce it. Foreign sheikhs don't produce it. Oil imports don't produce it.

What produces it is too much government spending and too much government creation of money and nothing else."

- Milton Friedman


Saying inflation is the result of supply chains, corporate profiteering, etc. is just another tactic used by the desperate to shift the blame away from the one entity that is responsible for actual inflation... The federal government.

Thank you for another incorrect hot take masquerading as fact, blarg. We can always count on you for that.

This is factually incorrect, but feel free to keep believing it.
I guess you've never heard of fractional lending by banks. It's a crazy new idea! Or things like supply and demand. Supply chains go down and everything costs more, pretty amazing. And then when things go back to normal, companies don't lower prices as much as they could (or at all) so they can keep more money for profits. Wild stuff man.

 

[32andBelow]

This is factually incorrect, but feel free to keep believing it.
I guess you've never heard of fractional lending by banks. It's a crazy new idea! Or things like supply and demand. Supply chains go down and everything costs more, pretty amazing. And then when things go back to normal, companies don't lower prices as much as they could (or at all) so they can keep more money for profits. Wild stuff man.

Now some are lowering prices cus people can’t pay anymore. Wild stuff. Wonder how they can afford to do that.

 

[HurryUpandWait]

Now some are lowering prices cus people can’t pay anymore. Wild stuff. Wonder how they can afford to do that.

Yeah it’s because of demand. Less demand means less supply being bought…

 

[Phillytroll69]

We’ll be living like fast food workers by 2028.

Free food?

 

[Spoony90]

Free food?

Would you like a side of vectorzzzz with your approach clearance?

 

[PooseMaGoose]

This is factually incorrect, but feel free to keep believing it.
I guess you've never heard of fractional lending by banks. It's a crazy new idea! Or things like supply and demand. Supply chains go down and everything costs more, pretty amazing. And then when things go back to normal, companies don't lower prices as much as they could (or at all) so they can keep more money for profits. Wild stuff man.

I’m not denying the existence of the things you’re mentioning, but those things are not INFLATION. Pricing goods higher to make a profit is not inflation. Market fluctuations affecting costs is not inflation.

Who shall we believe? One of the world’s most well-known Nobel laureate economists, or blarg, the politically-motivated cockbag on pointsixtyfive…

But it’s fine to keep believing that businesses choosing to price goods/services higher to increase profit margins is synonymous with inflation. Everybody has the right to be incorrect. It’s just so cringey how pompously right you believe yourself to be when you are so objectively wrong.

 

[32andBelow]

I’m not denying the existence of the things you’re mentioning, but those things are not INFLATION. Pricing goods higher to make a profit is not inflation. Market fluctuations affecting costs is not inflation.

Who shall we believe? One of the world’s most well-known Nobel laureate economists, or blarg, the politically-motivated cockbag on pointsixtyfive…

But it’s fine to keep believing that businesses choosing to price goods/services higher to increase profit margins is synonymous with inflation. Everybody has the right to be incorrect. It’s just so cringey how pompously right you believe yourself to be when you are so objectively wrong.

What you mean it’s not inflation. How do you think they calculate inflation.

 

[AB19]

Wait what kind of inflation are we talking about

 

[Nothanks]

This is the biggest circle jerk of a thread. I find myself not even reading these posts

 

[blarg]

I’m not denying the existence of the things you’re mentioning, but those things are not INFLATION. Pricing goods higher to make a profit is not inflation. Market fluctuations affecting costs is not inflation.

Who shall we believe? One of the world’s most well-known Nobel laureate economists, or blarg, the politically-motivated cockbag on pointsixtyfive…

But it’s fine to keep believing that businesses choosing to price goods/services higher to increase profit margins is synonymous with inflation. Everybody has the right to be incorrect. It’s just so cringey how pompously right you believe yourself to be when you are so objectively wrong.

Uh, yes. They are causes of inflation. Period.
I'm not politically motivated at all. I'm just not a fucking moron like yourself.

IMF: Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. Inflation is typically a broad measure, such as the overall increase in prices.
Cambridge dictionary: a general, continuous increase in prices
Wikipedia; In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. This is usually measured using the consumer price index (CPI).
What is CPI? A consumer price index (CPI) is a price index, the price of a weighted average market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households.
Merriam Webster: a continuing rise in the general price level usually attributed to an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods and services

Minor fluctuations up and down aren't inflation. Fluctuations building up over time which gradually increase prices that no longer go back down *are* inflation.

Friedman's quote doesn't even make sense. He's basically talking about money supply, and on its face is patently incorrect because fractional banking also increases money supply.
DURP DURP DURP

 

[PooseMaGoose]

Uh, yes. They are causes of inflation. Period.
I'm not politically motivated at all. I'm just not a fucking moron like yourself.

IMF: Inflation is the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time. Inflation is typically a broad measure, such as the overall increase in prices.
Cambridge dictionary: a general, continuous increase in prices
Wikipedia; In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. This is usually measured using the consumer price index (CPI).
What is CPI? A consumer price index (CPI) is a price index, the price of a weighted average market basket of consumer goods and services purchased by households.
Merriam Webster: a continuing rise in the general price level usually attributed to an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods and services

Minor fluctuations up and down aren't inflation. Fluctuations building up over time which gradually increase prices that no longer go back down *are* inflation.

Friedman's quote doesn't even make sense. He's basically talking about money supply, and on its face is patently incorrect because fractional banking also increases money supply.
DURP DURP DURP

The only moron here is the person copying/pasting from Wikipedia while simultaneously claiming a Nobel prize winner for economics is wrong and doesn’t make sense LOL

 

[32andBelow]

The only moron here is the person copying/pasting from Wikipedia while simultaneously claiming a Nobel prize winner for economics is wrong and doesn’t make sense LOL

I really can’t understand. Are you claiming that the period of record profits we just went through wasn’t inflation?

 

[Termine]

4.4 or whatever it is FERS contributions

4.9%, just to make your point that much stronger. Basically the entire TSP match goes toward paying your FERS. But of course you don't get to see that TSP match money in your bank account.

 

[blarg]

The only moron here is the person copying/pasting from Wikipedia while simultaneously claiming a Nobel prize winner for economics is wrong and doesn’t make sense LOL

I'm copy/pasting from literally every place that defines inflation. But I guess being so obtuse that you think that just because a guy who was smart and well-respected said something, that means every sentence he ever spoke was 100% correct means you know better... when what he clearly said, by the very definitions of the words, is not correct.

Japan is a really good example of these *~bAsiC eC0nom1cs!~ showing that economies have a lot more to them than just basic shit you blindly believe. Money supply increasing literally the entire time and inflation roughly sideways the past 30 years.

open these charts. click on 10 year or max at the top of the chart:

Japan Money Supply M1

Money Supply M1 in Japan decreased to 1091734.50 JPY Billion in February from 1097440.20 JPY Billion in January of 2025. This page provides - Japan Money Supply M1 - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

tradingeconomics.com

Japan Inflation Rate

Inflation Rate in Japan decreased to 3.70 percent in February from 4 percent in January of 2025. This page provides the latest reported value for - Japan Inflation Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey...

tradingeconomics.com

They even had a massive increase in money supply from 2000-2005 while experiencing DEFLATION. Good job on that analysis Milton! Or maybe that was Biden's fault, somehow.

South Korea Inflation Rate

Inflation Rate in South Korea decreased to 2 percent in February from 2.20 percent in January of 2025. This page provides the latest reported value for - South Korea Inflation Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar...

tradingeconomics.com

Italy Inflation Rate

Inflation Rate in Italy increased to 1.70 percent in February from 1.50 percent in January of 2025. This page provides the latest reported value for - Italy Inflation Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey...

tradingeconomics.com

United Kingdom Inflation Rate

Inflation Rate in the United Kingdom increased to 3 percent in January from 2.50 percent in December of 2024. This page provides - United Kingdom Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

tradingeconomics.com

Switzerland Inflation Rate

Inflation Rate in Switzerland decreased to 0.30 percent in February from 0.40 percent in January of 2025. This page provides - Switzerland Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

tradingeconomics.com

Countries all over earth had a lot of inflation due to supply chain problems. Guess it was all Biden's fault! so fucking stupid.

 

[Nothanks]

Inflation durrrr CPI, money supply, errrr. Use your time away from work in a useful manner. All this banter and “research” is getting you exactly nothing.

 

[blarg]

Inflation durrrr CPI, money supply, errrr. Use your time away from work in a useful manner. All this banter and “research” is getting you exactly nothing.

It might help some other people who are reading this, who are less stupid than Goose, actually learn something. That's worthwhile.

 

[AnyTrafficPleaseAdvise]

It might help some other people who are reading this, who are less stupid than Goose, actually learn something. That's worthwhile.