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To: AdamSelene235
"We are going to have inflation ( a monetary phenomenon) and deflation ( a credit collapse) simultaneously."

No, those two circumstances are mutually exclusive.

INFLATION is the devaluation of your currency (ie. it takes more of your currency to buy the same thing).

DEFLATION is the enhancement of your currency (ie., things cost less).

You can have one or none, but not both at the same time.

46 posted on 02/05/2003 4:35:36 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
No, those two circumstances are mutually exclusive.

I'm afraid not. You're ignoring how credit originates and is distributed in our financial system.

The scope of the terms "inflation" and "deflation" is too narrow to capture our current situation. The credit bubble collapse is deflationary, the Central bank's response is inflationary. Unfortunately, the two will not neatly cancel out.

48 posted on 02/05/2003 5:00:53 PM PST by AdamSelene235 (Like all the jolly good fellows,I drink my whiskey clear.)
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