{"id":2850,"date":"2022-04-05T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T12:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocle.lu\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2022-05-04T15:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:08:39","slug":"how-to-beat-the-high-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocle.lu\/en\/2022\/04\/05\/how-to-beat-the-high-cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"How to beat the high cost of living?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Let me tell you the story of John, the protagonist of our story, born in the beautiful state of Wisconsin in the United States (more precisely on the edge of the cold waters of Lake Superior) in the course of the 70s.<\/p>\n<p>Our John comes from a modest family: his father was a university professor and his mother a typist. His childhood and teenage years were classic, with the end of the \"Trente Glorieuses\" cycle.<\/p>\n<p>When he reached his twenties, he was hired as the manager of a furniture store. The economy was doing wonderfully, and our John was happy: he earned a good living and bought his dream car, a 1960 Ford Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, the wealth gap between John and his neighbor Charlie (to introduce him to you, he is the local notable, this smart guy has succeeded in developing salmon fisheries, a promising business!) This did not bother John, who was satisfied with his lifestyle and saw his purchasing power increase year after year.<\/p>\n<p>However, following the crises of 2000, 2008 and especially 2020, the responses of the central banks had ONE main consequence: an unlimited favoritism for Charlie at the expense of John. Today their wealth gap is $36M.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2860 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/monocle.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/How-to-beat-the-high-cost-of-life-2-2-300x238.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monocle.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/How-to-beat-the-high-cost-of-life-2-2-300x238.png 300w, https:\/\/monocle.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/How-to-beat-the-high-cost-of-life-2-2-768x609.png 768w, https:\/\/monocle.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/How-to-beat-the-high-cost-of-life-2-2.png 970w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>*<em>*Difference in wealth between the richest 1% in the United States and the 50% poorest<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The situation was getting worse but was still bearable for John, until a new parameter appeared: the explosion of the cost of living with a galloping inflation (direct consequence of the monetary policies of these last years).<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, at the moment, our John is really starting to feel the pinch: he sees Charlie getting richer and richer while he has to tighten his belt more and more to face the increases in the price of his groceries, his rent, and his gas (yes, it consumes a 1960 Mustang!).<\/p>\n<p>There are 165M Johns in the US (and make no mistake, they have their counterparts in Europe).<\/p>\n<p>If there is one thing that is certain in these markets, it is that today the central banks, having played all their cards, no longer have the luxury of enriching a few Charlie's at the expense of all the John's.<\/p>\n<p>And that is not going to please asset prices.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great week,<\/p>\n<p>Max<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laissez-moi vous raconter l\u2019histoire de John, le protagoniste de notre histoire, n\u00e9 dans le bel \u00e9tat du Wisconsin aux Etats-Unis (plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment au bord des eaux froides du&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-le-billet-de-monocle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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