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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not what GDP measures. GDP measures profit companies are making, not the salaries employees get paid. Also, inflation does not directly correspond to the cost of living either. Again, please explain how in your mind Russia became a high income country if the economy is shrinking and inflation is outpacing wages. I eagerly await to see your reasoning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Also does he mean yearly inflation, which is just reevaluated monthly? Whereas quarterly GDP growth? JohnDClay quarterly means four times a year. Furthermore single digit inflation is typically not considered as high. Also GDP growth does not necessarily talk of sucessful economic policy since there was strong decline before, but it does point to poor performance of sanctions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly, these are completely separate concepts that have no direct relationship with one another.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well there I would too disagree. His intuition was not completely wrong. Depending on what macroeconomic theory you like, gdp change and inflation are usually related. His interpretation was poor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They're not directly related though, we often see growing GDP along with growing inflation. It's a perfectly normal scenario.