[ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election

[Keith Henson]

I don't have the least idea of what you are talking about

Best wishes,

Keith


On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 10:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* [ExI] Inflation and the 2024 election
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> *>…And there’s a big risk that the succession of inflation shocks will do
> what the post-Covid shock didn’t: get entrenched in expectations, so that
> we will need a recession to get inflation back down… John*
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> *Note in political commentary on this subject the conflation of prices and
> inflation.  Once inflation has occurred, prices do not come back down, even
> if inflation goes to zero.  Inflation seldom goes negative, and if it does,
> that has its own dire consequences.  Inflation is the devaluation of
> currency, and it is a one-way road.  If we argue that inflation was already
> back down in 2024, prices were staying up.  Even if oil prices drop and
> resulting fuel prices drop, prices are generally sticky downward.  The
> voters may not get that.*
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> *Consider the alternative explanation for the results of the 16, 20 and 24
> elections, what I call the anaphase theory, with the term anaphase calling
> out to you from your high school biology class.  Reminder:*
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> *https://duckduckgo.com/?q=anaphase+mitosis&atb=v135-1&t=chromentp&ia=images&iax=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.vecteezy.com%2Fsystem%2Fresources%2Fpreviews%2F011%2F972%2F454%2Foriginal%2Fanaphase-of-mitosis-vector.jpg
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> *The opposition party’s loss to the unpopular guy who won two of those
> three contests is explained by its being deep in the anaphase of mitosis
> now.  On one pole, the traditional democrat thought leaders, Joe, Nancy
> Pelosi, Robert Kennedy Jr, Chuck Schumer, comedians Jon Stewart, Bill
> Maher, strategist James Carville, that crowd.  On the other pole, Rep.
> Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Abdul El Sayed, Hasan Piker, Ilhan Omar, that
> crowd.  Understanding the anaphase theory is all we need: the democrat
> party is fighting World War Eleven within its own ranks, or you prefer more
> peaceful terms (I do) it is undergoing mitosis, and is currently in the
> anaphase.*
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