In the simplest terms, inflation occurs when there's too much money in the system. On the flip side, deflation occurs when there are too few dollars in circulation.
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Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.
Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'
The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Deflation can be particularly dangerous when a financial system is shaky, with household and corporate balance sheets in poor shape and banks undercapitalized and heavily burdened with bad loans.
In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
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