Quote from: NeuroticFish on Today at 07:31:47 AM

You have mixed things up a bit, sorry.
* The cars are delivered so late not because there are so many buyers, no. It's because the semiconductors shortage.

When there is a shortage there is a deficit of something, and you can't have a deficit without a demand.
There would be no chip shortage in the first place if poeple would be too broke to buy cars, but since they do you have this shortage.

And there is more about this:

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Semiconductor sales are expected to grow by another 9% and cross $600 billion for the first time in 2022, the analysts predicted. That’s on top of the 26% growth to $553 billion in 2021, they added.

We still have shortages despite producing more, that means more demand, means more poeple buying, more poeple having money to buy them.

Quote from: NeuroticFish on Today at 07:31:47 AM

* The PC, laptops (and even tablets) sales have grown hugely in the last year(s) because people switched to working from home, kids are doing school from home

The data is from 2021, work from home started in 2020, it would make little sense to have a growth on growth when the things went down from complete lockdown to restrictions, at least from Europe's point of view.

Quote from: NeuroticFish on Today at 07:31:47 AM

But yes, the prices are up. Some still buy basically all the crap, some are going out like crazy (you're so right about holidays and the cars on the streets - especially as gasoline prices are sky high), some others have difficulties in buying enough food or paying the gas and electricity bills.

Indeed, some or even a lot we can say have difficulties, but it's not like everyone is out of money.
But the author only sees doom and gloom, repeating the same narrative for years and his predictions are just as useless as two years ago

Quote from: spy100 on July 27, 2020, 10:14:56 AM

This is a total nightmare
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BTC is now above 10200 usd ( How in the hell is going to buy btc ? if no one will have money to buy )