Outside the wall
There are many things that do not have to be too much, even at all.Those who believe that "disconnection leave" began to throw away the "own" obsession, at least no longer rely on material relying on material; and ordinary and low class people are like you and me, it is not difficult to practiceEssenceIn the days of "double", who said that you have to buy, buy, and buy?
Wang Peter
Come a horse first.
I joined the Writing team of the Lianhe Zaobao "One -year" every year. Last year, I wrote the word "crisis" because I felt that there were many crisis in the world, and the bad signs appeared and superimposed together.
However, when the first 10 shortlisted Chinese characters were placed in front of me, the intuition had told me that the word "rising" would be overwhelmed.Because the word "danger" is probably only the critical and dangerous media people like me feel, "rising" is a sense of everyone, every day, no one can hide.
The migrant workers may have salary increases, but those who come in and never go out. Every time you look at the bank deposit, you often have a feeling of "moonlight heart panic".Those who are bosses in all walks of life are suffering from various types of costs.Even if something starts, a few high -net -worth individuals cannot hurt a small net worth, their various assets, the value of last year is "rising".
Sure enough, but not only the readers of the Morning Post chose "rise", but also the 8th perspective.Following Taiwan and Malaysia have also announced the "rise" as the annual Chinese characters.
The most direct feeling for the shrinking of purchasing power is three meals a day.Like recently patronizing the Malay rice stalls in the coffee shop, I ordered a piece of fish, an egg and a spoonful of cabbage, and more than seven yuan.
The starting price is the same thing, and the weight is less, and it is also a disguised inflation.Like one time I bought Kaya Toast in a food cabinet, even if the bread was thin, even Kaya was so thin that there was almost nothing. At the end, only the bread was left.As for butter, it has always been small, meaning.For another example, just a few days ago, he packed the so -called pork porridge, saying "so -called", because after returning home, it took a long time and found that there were few pork and small slices. It was a bowl of white porridge!
I rarely go to the supermarket and Pasar. If you are the main buyers in the family, the bitter water must be much more than me.Therefore, some families will regularly buy various foods from overseas online. Although they have to pay taxes less than 400 yuan now, it is said that it can save how much.
Singapore's expensive can be seen from several small sides.Recently, my friends are retaliated, and then they always say that they are cheap, that cheap, and even returning from Japan.When I hear it, I will laugh and remind: It ’s not cheap, but you are used to spending high consumption in Singapore, and because of the epidemic, you have not eaten foreign fireworks abroad for three years. The contrast and feelings are inevitable.
Indeed, everything is relative.In Japan, their "30 years of lost 30 years", a big sinking illness is a tightening of currency, and the inflation rate is often negative.Now Chinese people travel to Japan, there are always Hokkaido, and it is always necessary to ski to Hokkaido. This is a luxury option for very few people in the past.
There are so many hardships in the world
With the standards of foreign special personnel, Singapore is also the world's most expensive city.Economist think tanks conduct surveys every year. The results announced at the end of last year were the top of Singapore and New York, but this is not a "new" news, because in the past 10 years, we have been put in this position eight times.Among them, the cost of housing and car use must be the main reason, especially the latter, the world's most expensive, none of them.Maybe "foreigners" return to their own country, there will be an illusion: Oh my God, how the car is the price of cabbage!
We have a bad life, but remember that there are more people in the world.For example, every time I read Argentina news, if it was not related to football or Messi, it must be inflation, and it was 50%, 70%... and then close to 100%of the high inflation news.This country with a very failed economy has been tortured for N years.
But Argentina is not the world's "champion".Others such as Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Zimbabwe, etc., also went to three digits.It is hard to imagine how people in these places should deal with the suffering of life.The British love strike is already famous, but if even lawyers and faculty members in universities take industrial actions, you know that more than 10%of inflation is enough to push them to the critical point.
Sri Lanka, which announced the bankruptcy last year, has a video impressive.When inflation rose to 70%, a local airport employee was helplessly said when he was interviewed by anchor that he had reduced three meals a day to two meals.I believe that his poor two meals must also be rough tea.
What is the world?One is the epidemic, which seriously interferes with the supply chain.Then there is geopolitics confrontation, especially in Europe, and energy and food have been weapons. You sanction me, I sanction your results, it is strange to not inflation.
Looking back at the three oil crisis in the century, they all caused inflation due to the war in the Middle East, especially the first two in 1973 and 1979.Today's Russian and Ukraine War is exactly the same, but the situation is more complicated, the danger and pain index are even more, because the battlefield is in Europe, which is directly confronted with Russia and NATO, not small and medium -sized countries in the Middle East;It is even more important.
Do n’t forget that the major central banks have been engaged in quantitative easing and injecting liquidity into the market over the years. It has created the conditions that money will become more and more valuable.In short, everything that should not happen happened, and they interacted, brewing this perfect storm.
The Financial Administration estimates that the core inflation rate that continues to be at a high level this year can not slow until the second half of the year.We all rely on imports. Input inflation is unavoidable first, coupled with human tightening and continuously pushing up wages. The two structural factors should be externally intertwined. When is this round of inflation cycle, it is really not allowed.
More macro and long -term, there are two trends worthy of attention: carbonization and de -globalization.
The pursuit of net zero emissions is the general trend, and it is also an urgent transformation, but it will never get rid of the cost problem.There are too many examples. Like airlines, it is a good thing to use sustainable fuel, but passengers have to bear additional costs.Another example is carbon tax. We are now five yuan per ton, and then increased step by step. It is estimated that by 2030, it will be charged 50 yuan to 80 yuan per ton.Service price.In short, carbon taxes not only affect the people flying in the sky, but all families and enterprises on the ground, adults and children must pay for it.
As for globalization, it hurts bones.We have seen more trade and investment barriers, as well as the decoupling of industry and technology.The international division of labor, resource allocation efficiency, relative advantages, etc., which have been regarded as Guiyu, have now been replaced by safety considerations.There is no doubt that this reversal will accelerate in the future, which is extremely unfavorable to the economy and will inevitably cause inflation.
In order to stabilize the price, the HKMA has appreciated Xinyuan for several rounds, but if this continues to do so, it will impact to export and form a dilemma in policy.
Rating interest rate hikes is the only available trick in many countries, but the cost is not small. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organization have all seen the economy of most economies this year.Some experts are even worried that it will cause stagnation -that is, low growth is more troublesome to be with high inflation.And interest rates have been added, even if they curb their inflation, they may not be happy, because more liability countries will fall into despair.The same is true. Many people carrying mortgages have begun to "stress" mountains and inflation.Slowly, but the house supply increased, and the arrival still had to lose.
If you have a positive mentality, you can tell yourself: more effort, let the income go to the inflation, but what should I do if there is no retirement of retirees without work or no passive income?Like many bottom families, they need more social transfer; it is estimated that the budget for next month will be generous.
But no matter whether it is scored, there is another way to subdue to inflation.
"Disposter" should be inflation?
Last Sunday's idea edition, when I discussed their subjects, my two colleagues mentioned "disconnection".Indeed, in the past few years, there are many people who are interested in, and they have different complaints. The biggest convention is to understand that there are many things in life that there are many things, and even at all.The believers began to throw away the "own" obsession, at least no longer rely on the material; and ordinary and low class people like you and me, it is not difficult to practice, that is, reducing impulsive consumption.In the days of "double", who said that you have to buy, buy, and buy?
This is pretty good.First of all, it helps environmental protection, and then it is a manifestation of individual toughness in the era of great inflation. As the saying goes: the mountain does not turn around, and the road does not turn.
As for not consumption, how to drive the economy?Or how to open up a larger world market and attract more investment. These survival topics leave it for smart, made a lot of money, and people who live a lot of money to burn their brains.
The author is the deputy editor -in -chief of United Zaobao
