ECB and Inflation

[Crazy_Ivan80]

I was a bit optimistic about syriza at first, but they are really looking like amateurish clowns at this point.

like all national-socialist governments

[celedhring]

Syriza's jumped the shark, I'm afraid.

[Ed Anger]

I'm now losing value on my Normandy holdings. Plz fix Euro.

FIX NOW.

9000 dollars in lost value. 

18000 now. 

Also, I laughed Seedy.

Groan.

*cries*

[Sheilbh]

Syriza's jumped the shark, I'm afraid.

Disagree. I think they're still the only reason to have any hope in Europe.

[Admiral Yi]

That's because you rate political parties on style Shelf.

[grumbler]

Syriza's jumped the shark, I'm afraid.

Disagree. I think they're still the only reason to have any hope in Europe.

That's probably the saddest thing you've ever posted; you are admitting that it's hopeless in Europe.

[MadImmortalMan]

Out of curiosity for the Euros: What does actually cost less now than it did five or ten years ago?

Where's the deflation happening?

[Syt]

Not here. Inflation has been between 1 and 2 % for the last years.

[Zanza]

Out of curiosity for the Euros: What does actually cost less now than it did five or ten years ago?

Where's the deflation happening?

For Germany: The only noticeable thing with nominal deflation is energy (oil, gas) in the last months. But that's very volatile. Other than that stuff might stay the same price for long times, which I guess denotes real deflation. Electronics and communications have a "tech-induced" deflation I guess.
But normal consumer goods (food, clothes, cars), virtually all services and real estate (buying and renting) don't seem to have deflation here. Quite the contrary in some cases.

[The Larch]

My father and me recently discussed that, apparently car prices (mostly those of low and medium end) seem to have either stagnated or gone down in the last few years (apparently for less than 15k € you can get a pretty decent new car nowadays, and if you lower your standards even for less than 10k €), although it might be due to the generous subsidies that have been in place over this time.

[celedhring]

Syriza's jumped the shark, I'm afraid.

Disagree. I think they're still the only reason to have any hope in Europe.

We're screwed then.

[Zanza]

Syriza's jumped the shark, I'm afraid.

Disagree. I think they're still the only reason to have any hope in Europe.

We are really, really fucked then.

[Zanza]

Just learned a new word: "Grexident". Wouldn't be surprised to see that happen...

[Valmy]

Syriza's jumped the shark, I'm afraid.

Disagree. I think they're still the only reason to have any hope in Europe.

What is the vision for Europe that they represent?

[Zanza]

Syriza's jumped the shark, I'm afraid.

Disagree. I think they're still the only reason to have any hope in Europe.

What is the vision for Europe that they represent?

There is free lunch.