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> Prices are a function of supply and demand, not of access to capital.

And easy access to debt massively shifts the equilibrium point on the supply/demand curves.

Cars, houses, college, even cell phones or furniture can have far higher market prices when people switch from paying full-price in cash at time of purchase to making payments over months or years.




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