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To: Kazan
There can be several factors contributing to inflation.
A booming economy is one.

A booming economy produces more output. That tends to be deflationary. Is Venezuela producing more GDP than ever? Is Russia?

Printing money, like we did in the '70s and have done in recent years and like Venezuela has done, is another.

Or like Russia.

The Green agenda is also has driven inflation rates up here and Europe.

Making your energy inputs more expensive makes your outputs less affordable and lowers GDP.

Adding military production and presumably reducing everything else probably makes "everything else" more expensive. Making more tanks isn't reducing demand for the reduced food or clothing produced.

47 posted on 12/05/2024 11:33:06 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Toddsterpatriot
A booming economy produces more output.That tends to be deflationary.

Wrong. Economic growth always produces some inflation. Why? Because if consumers are working more and making more money, they are spending more.

That is Economics 101.

49 posted on 12/05/2024 2:25:52 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Toddsterpatriot
Russia hasn't been printing to anywhere the extent WE HAVE, let alone Venezuela.

One of the primary reasons the Russia economy, in addition to the war, is that rich Russians were forced to keep their money in Russia due to the idiotic sanction war Biden started.

66 posted on 12/06/2024 10:39:34 AM PST by Kazan
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