The Swedish inflation
C.Nilsson
Hello, this article is a way for me to express my opinion regarding the low value of SEK. Yes i am well aware of all the pros of it, on erepublik.se you have made that clear. But that those not stop the facts that this low valued SEK is hurting companys. For example, im the CEO of Resouce Corporation, Inc and i have noticed what this is doing to the market. Stockcompanys have harder to pay the same ammount of gold becuse its more expensive to buy gold for your SEK, some days its almost impossible becuse there is almost no gold on the market. The income in SEK is rather irrelevnt when the goldprices are this for lack of a better word insane.
This extreme inflation is also damaging banks or atleast those who want to put in money in it. Lets say you put in 1000 SEK and then you have an interest rate on 5 % you will gain 50 SEK. If the value of SEK is high this sum can be pretty good but with our current SEK value its nothing at all.
This only benefits those who make large quantities with SEK becuse they can then buy raw material factorys. But what happens with those who want to buy food or weapons factorys or the common worker with limited income flow?
Well to put it simple this people dont benefit from this.
I am well aware of that its not all the leaders fault becuse plato is helping the inflation by buying our gods for money that dosent exist which is helping the inflation. But this is still something that the gouverment advocates, and the fact that the leaders just happends to be the one who benefits from this is a bit suspiciously.
I dont like to be completly without numbers so i decided to compary our beloved Sweden with some other nations i randomly choice. I take the topp 5 offers on the gold market then divide them by 5 to get a kind of avarege.
Sweden - 1423,2 SEK for 1 Gold
Russia - 1268 RUB for 1 Gold
Hungary - 1089,158 HUF for 1 Gold
Spain - 1282,4 ESP for 1 Gold
Greece - 1018 GRD for 1 Gold
Taiwan - 1279 TWD for 1 Gold
Peru - 1143,3998 PEN for 1 Gold
USA - 1113,8 USD for 1 Gold
Turkey - 845 TRY for 1 Gold
Italy - 1457 ITL for 1 Gold
Now you can look at these 10 nation and compare there iflation with other nations and as you can se Sweden is a close 2 when it comes to have hight inflation. And that Turkey is the nation whitch out of these countrys have lowest inflation. I know these numbers make more sense when you compare them with the income from one days work and by that calculate whitch country is most profitible. I will simply do this with Turkey and Sweden to show you how exspenive it really is to work in Sweden.
In Sweden gold is worth 1423,2 SEK and our pay of one days work is 160,814 SEK.
In Turkey gold is worth 845 TRY and one day of work gives them 140 TRY.
What this numbers meen is that it takes 8,8 days for a swede to afford 1 gold. For a turk it takes 6 days. As you can se this is a bid diffrent, that is the result of high inflation. The pay to the workers can simply not addapt to this extreme changes and this meens that having a swedish employe is extremly profitible. And as i said before, those who has mulitple companys with Q5 is often those who has the power to influence swedish politics and may wery well be the ones who try to keep this inflation as high and profitible as possible, atleast for them.
Regards
C.Nilsson
Comments
Voted
1. For you own sake, denote the dividend in SEK instead of in gold. You could still pay your shareholders in gold but explain to them that the amount they will receive is a function of your profits and the gold price.
2. You are comparing price levels, not inflation. Inflation is a increase in prices over a longer period. You are also comparing nominal prices which does not really tell us anything.
3. Your "8.8 days for 1 gold" is actually a good point. However, this argument is only valid if gold is the only consumption good. Let's, for simplicity, assume that it is. This means that real wages in Sweden (0.112 gold) are a lot lower than real wages in, for instance, Turkey (0.166).
To further deepen the analysis, you should also look at the price of other consumptions goods, such as weapons and food.
So true..
Nice article!
Volcker: He is correct about inflation since there are twwo definitions of the word. One is indeed an overall increase in prices but the other one defines inflation as expansion of the money supply which is very true today.
V+S
Nice nilsson nice facts etc. V!
@Saypayaa
First of all, he is still only comparing price levels. You can't say that, since the price of gold is 1400 in Sweden and 1300 in Denmark, Sweden has higher inflation than Denmark. However, you could say that Sweden has a higher price level than Denmark.
Second, defining inflation as an increase of the money supply is incorrect. Increasing the money supply would, in most cases, lead to an inflation. In other words, the two events are highly correlated but not equal.
High inflation can also be the result of a fixed money supply, for instance, if the government accumulates a non-sustainable level of debt.
@VolckerI
I will do more articles like these, i will take your thought into considiration since its good ideeas.
This article was made to give people the basic idea of what we are living in and i know people dont like these high prices for gold. I just wanted to point out that this is not the way it looks like in every nation and that we can do something about it. (Its not only admin to blame)
You seem to exspect alot from this article, i did not have time to go into any great depths. But next time i will most likly do a followup on this were i will compare it to the prices of food and weapons.
@C.Nilsson:
I liked your article and I'm really happy that you wrote it. When I have some more spare time, I would be happy to do a study with you and write an article about it
I hope you consider my comments as constructive criticism and not as me just being a big ol' meanie!
@volcker
I understand that it was constructive criticism becuse you dident complain , you gave me information whitch most likly will enhance my permormance and for that i thank you.
It would be really nice to work with you, always best to have someone to ball ideas with (:
Blir på svenska men...det konstiga i systemet är att priserna är fasta. Oavsett valutakurs och löner. råvarupriserna är till viss del fasta. De har ett "lägsta pris" men sedan kan de säljas högre än så.
riksbanken should have money to put lower offers and make swedish mm stable
@Gudrun
I know, this is becuse Plato is involved , we dont need to sell cheep when he buy of our gods. He is ruining the free market.
Update:
Right now the cheepest offer on MM in Sweden is 1600 SEK for 1 gold.
Most likley the result of the 50 % cheeper uppgrade on companys.
Vote! Nice work Nilsson!
Voted!