ChicagoJohn123
ChicagoJohn123 t1_j9fpjqk wrote
Reply to comment by KatieCashew in [OC] % of American students taking a foreign language class by state by ASoloTrip90000
I'd love to see how 30 year olds feel about that.
I can imagine that you feel more awkward in school where you're literally doing grammar exercises. But I feel like most the people I know who grew up bilingual speak English extremely well (just like the people who played two varsity sports tended to be better at both than they would have been just playing one)
ChicagoJohn123 t1_iwhxjja wrote
We're all figuring out how to admit that every piece of data from March 2020 to March 2022 is useless. We're unwinding all the stock changes that came from that and we're unwinding the hires that came from that.
ChicagoJohn123 t1_ja9w72h wrote
Reply to TIL that in the period of time since the introduction of the consumer price index, the highest inflation rate observed in the U.S. was 20.49% in 1917. by ringopendragon
This is why we had rationing in WWII.
War spending puts money in workers' pockets without producing consumer goods. If you don't do something you have more money chasing fewer products and get inflation.
In WWII we instituted price controls and rationing. The net effect was an enforced savings plan. Basically you get paid, but you can't spend that money till the war is over.