| Title: | ARCHIVE-- Topics of Interest to Women, Volume 1 --ARCHIVE |
| Notice: | V1 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 873 |
| Total number of notes: | 22329 |
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 706.1 | Did inflation come first? | REGENT::BROOMHEAD | Don't panic -- yet. | Thu Feb 04 1988 13:09 | 3 |
Perhaps you have confused cause and effect?
Ann B.
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| 706.2 | CADSYS::SULLIVAN | Karen - 225-4096 | Thu Feb 04 1988 13:31 | 12 | |
RE: .1 I totally agree RE: .0 This argument is often used to try and make women feel guilty about working and to blame them for problems in society. I know you didn't use this argument to blame women, I'm just pointing out that that is how it is often used. I'd prefer to blame rampant spending by governments for inflation before I would blame 2-career couples. I'd also like to point out that the people making the really big $'s tend not to be dual career families. ...Karen | |||||
| 706.3 | HANDY::MALLETT | Situation hopeless but not serious | Thu Feb 04 1988 15:57 | 26 | |
re: .0
"Is there an irony here?" I think so, albeit a sad one.
I also share the opinion that there is no direct cause/effect
relationship; in this area, I think the high tech boom and the
numbers of people attracted to the area had more to do with
the inflation of particularly real estate prices. I view it
as a reasonably straightforward demand and supply question.
At the same time (and for the same reason) I believe that women
in the workforce *is* a factor from the sense that, over a long
period, the inability of large numbers of indivduals to meet the
rising prices would eventually have the effect of putting downward
pressure on prices. I think the effect of large numbers of two-income
families is that those prices can be met over a long haul. Again,
an instance of supply and demand. There are more women working
in Houston as well, but for the last few years, homeowners there
have taken a beating in that area; the demand keeps shrinking and the
supply has stayed (more or less) the same.
I am curious, though: did you (.0) mean to imply a causal
relationship?
Steve
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| 706.5 | do you have references? | STUBBI::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Thu Feb 04 1988 18:33 | 5 |
Very simple economics...leaving most of economic theory out.
As earlier authors have mentioned, look more to run away government
spending for your causes.
Bonnie
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| 706.6 | on the basenote | STUBBI::B_REINKE | where the sidewalk ends | Fri Feb 05 1988 11:42 | 7 |
The author of the basenote and .4 has deleted his own note. The
subject of the note was that inflation has been caused by the
increased amount of money available to families where both husband
and wife work.
Bonnie J
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