causing the value of money to slowly fall—and inflation to pick up. This led merchants to raise their prices, causing widespread panic. In response, the emperor Diocletian issued what’s now known as the Edict on Maximum Prices, a series of price and wage controls designed to stop the ris...
Inflation is the rate at which the price of goods and services increases over time. It can affect nearly any product or service, including need-based expenses such as housing, food, medical care, and utilities, as well as want-based expenses such as cosmetics, automobiles, and jewelry. Once...
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Home prices across the country are still rising at a faster clip than overall inflation, causing sticker shock for house hunters like the Kataskas. Shelter inflation, which is a measure of the average cost of housing in the US, rose to 4.8% year-over-year in December, according to thelat...
They also seek to understand what's causing inflation, because inflationary impulses come in several distinct types, each with its own cause and consequences. Three key varieties are demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, andwage-price spiral inflation, the latter also known as built-in infla...
*Interestingly, I think part of the reason we’re starting to see inflation now, when we hadn’t the last million times the government printed money, is not just the amount that was printed, but also what was done with it. I wrote before about how the printed money never really got lo...
Russia has been frozen out of the international financial system via SWIFT, and is seeing sanctions on its central bank and reserve funds. Sports fixtures across the country have been cancelled and it has been banned from taking part in the Eurovision So
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Inflation can come from the economy, from the government, or from demand and supply effects. It can even be negative, something that is called deflation. And it has several consequences, the biggest of which is to make you lose purchasing power over time. So you need to protect yourself ag...
An optimum level of inflation is often promoted to encourage spending to a certain extent instead of saving. If the purchasing power of money falls over time, there may be a greater incentive to spend now instead of saving and spending later. It may increase spending, which may boost ...