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We are going to kick off today's podcast with a great example of why you and what you do with your time and your dollars is actually the most important thing in our entire economy.

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If you remember one thing from today's podcast, it is that you matter and your actions matter.

And how you spend your money also matters.

Now, if you remember, coming out of the pandemic in Joe Biden's first two years as president,

inflation was insane, right? The price of everything was going up. And honestly, some of those

price increases made sense for a little bit. You know, shipping things across the globe became a little

more difficult and factories temporarily shut down here and there. So things became more expensive

because there was less supply and too much

demand. But then as all of us started getting back to, you know, regular life and supply chain

issues went away. The corporations realized something. They realized as their costs to produce

started coming down, they didn't need to lower the price for us because we were still

buying all of the stuff that was more expensive until we weren't. And this is the cool part.

We as consumers started getting fed up with higher costs and a lot of people just stopped

spending money. Economists have actually said that people started getting smarter with

their finances when they realized how much money these corporations were bringing in and how much

their CEOs were making. And because people started making better financial decisions and

stopped buying as much, inflation started coming down because corporations started to lower their prices.

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