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It doesn't sound like you think who spends the money makes any difference? Between consumers, businesses or the government? You don't think the variable of household disposable income matters when it comes to consumer demand?
As I shared earlier, it matters in the sense that money spent by government would have less velocity due to government's inherent bureaucracy and red tape. The next group to produce lag on velocity would be bigger corporations. Then in descending order would be small corps, medium businesses, small businesses, micro businesses and people.

increased velocity, like supply, is inflationary.
 
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Once again, I am also talking about more money being created .... I'm not holding that as a constant.

As to whether the price of a good or service is changed by an increase in household disposable income .... that would depend on the nature of the product.
That more money created side is really where the damage is done, in my opinion. It isn't the only inflationary catalyst but I think it has to be the most drastic. To your point, more money in the hands of consumers (velocity) combined with more money poured into the supply compounds the problem.

As you've stated before, we want a modest, consistent amount of inflation. Post covid was really a perfect storm of factors increasing inflation.
 
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As I shared earlier, it matters in the sense that money spent by government would have less velocity due to government's inherent bureaucracy and red tape. The next group to produce lag on velocity would be bigger corporations. Then in descending order would be small corps, medium businesses, small businesses, micro businesses and people.

increased velocity, like supply, is inflationary.
Other then covid spending in Trumps last year, how come his spending prior didnt lead to similar inflationary rates we are at now??? Given the 2 years avg lag we should have seen inflation increase significantly by year 3 but it didn't..
 
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Other then covid spending in Trumps last year, how come his spending prior didnt lead to similar inflationary rates we are at now??? Given the 2 years avg lag we should have seen inflation increase significantly by year 3 but it didn't..
That;s a really intelligent question. My answer is twofold: It might be that his spending was on par with spending and increases in spending as we saw with other presidents (on average) and therefore it was more status quo on economy, and inflation may have taken a tick up but not so abruptly or steeply for us to really notice.

I haven't researched inflation per year relative to spending but I will if you want me to. Your question also brings the lag time between inflationary catalysts and when those are realized. I addressed that in theory with BB earlier but it would be interesting to see the data on correlation.
 
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