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- From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
- Subject: Re: Inflation
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:32:02 GMT
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- In article <2455@blue.cis.pitt.edu> wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell) writes:
- >
- >Okay, Norbert, let's say that we live in an economy where there is a bank
- >which is willing to pay 5% interest on money deposited. If anyone at
- >all deposits money in that bank, his nominal wealth will increase by
- >5% iunxx in one year, right? Let's say someone else does not. The depositor
- >now has 5% more nominal wealth to play with than the non-depositor,
- >and is thus more able to compete in the market than he was before, whreas
- >the non-edpositor hasn't changed, in terms of nominal wealth. The
- >demand curve will shift, moving the quilibrium point, dragging prices
- >up with it. This is what I "know". Where have I strayed?
-
- the 5% simply represents rent for the use of an item. as such, it is
- no different than the rent you pay for your apartment, or the salary
- a company pays an employee to "rent" him or her. i don't want to get into
- equilibrium points etc., but i think the issue is that singling out
- interest rates as inflationary is invalid because they are just another
- form of compensation for use of an asset, no more than any other.
- to claim that interest is inflationary would be to suggest that every
- other activity which results in an increase in nominal wealth is.
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- charles
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