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- From: nfs@volkl (Norbert Schlenker)
- Subject: Re: Inflation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.155732.10927@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <2401@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1993Jan23.170436.10269@athena.mit.edu> <2420@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:57:32 GMT
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- In article <2420@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
- >... bit I know that
- >people will pay interst for my investment, so I know that there must be
- >inflation.
-
- What you "know" is wrong. Even in the absence of inflation, people will
- pay interest for the use of your money. If they have a productive use
- for the money and can plausibly forecast that said use will return more
- than they would have to pay you as interest, they will borrow your money.
- They will do this irrespective of whether prices are inflating.
-
- Norbert
- nfs@cs.princeton.edu
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