But it is also the most expensive, usually too much for me to be pouring carefree by the bottle.

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If they were too punitive then credit would be much less available and much more expensive than it is today.

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No doubt there is one, but this isn't due to money being too expensive as much as it's the result of capital flowing to non-productive, hard assets that tend to perform best when money is losing value.

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