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Continuous inflation or deflation left unchecked can wound the economy. While deflation can drive down prices, which is good, profits and wages may also suffer and repaying debt becomes expensive.
Deflation, or falling prices, is another risk for the economy. Falling demand for goods and services could push down prices, creating a toxic cycle.
Deflation makes the situation worse, inflation makes the situation less bad. These ‘directions of travel’ means inflation is highly likely. Will most people even notice 7% inflation a year?
But when considering the risks of deflation, we shouldn't look at the CPI in isolation. The phenomenon of prices falling modestly at a time when the economy at large is growing at a 3 percent ...
What’s so bad about deflation? After all, it’s a pleasant surprise when prices of many items fall. Generations of Econ 101 students and central banks have been schooled to think that inflation ...