To compensate for a slowing economy.

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I think this would just end up exacerbating the high supply / low demand of items that have caused stagnation on the market boards.

The reason that it is so hard to gain traction in the marketplace at the moment is that everything is oversupplied, it is buyers market with suppliers forced to sell items at a miniscule return.

What needs to happen is a reduction in supply and to promote a return to a scarcity goods market on certain high demand products.

Actually what we really need is something that is worth selling. Right now nothing really is.