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126: 2023 Housing Market Forecast: “Things Are Going to Be Messed Up” w/J Scott and Scott Trench

On The Market

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The Fed's Target of 2% Inflation

Jay Parini: Americans do not like high inflation. Why do they pick 2%? Literally, I think it was something to the effect of, well, if there's deflation, people hoard too much money and they don't spend in that laggish economy. And one of the big ones there is an aging population in this country and not enough immigration to replace those workers. We're going to have a lot of wage optionality over the course of the next couple of years or decades as demand for workers grows," he says.

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