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Board Economics
Re: Inflation and Deflation of Price and Money Supply
by
deisik
on 23/04/2014, 16:44:11 UTC
Inflation is the general increase in prices, so it is the goods that you buy whose price will inflate, rather than the currency used to buy the goods.

Some people want to be different and say that inflation is an increase in money supply (monetary base before all). It may or may not influence the prices... Cool

Those are two possible definition of inflation. Monetary inflation and price inflation.

To avoid confusion, money supply (or its increase) is better to be used instead of monetary inflation since deflation (the opposite of price inflation) has only one meaning (namely, currency appreciation). There is no monetary deflation in the sense of money supply contraction... Cool