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- From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
- Subject: Re: Inflation
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:10:17 GMT
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- In article <2306@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
- >
- >Okay, Charles, the point I am trying to make is that inflation would
- >occur even in a free market without government intervention (the perpetual
- >bad guy), and even without money. Yes, inflation of prices means "prices
- >go up", but that doesn;t tell us much. Why do they go up? It seems
- >to be the contention of some here that inflation occurs because 1.
- >the government does things to cause it, 2. because we use money, or 3.
- >both. I am claiming that inflation would occur without either the government
- >or money, as "natural" inflation will raise prices, due to the fact that
- >if you sit on something, you waste its useful value. If you still do
- >not understand, let me know, and I'll run through it again.
-
- no need. i have no dispute that some inflation is natural. my only
- point is that most of it is due to "the perpetual bad guy".
-
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- charles
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