Thursday, 26 May 2011

"INFLATION"

INFLATION in the developed world is at its lowest in almost half a century. This should be a moment of triumph for inflation-busting central banks. Yet instead, many economists are fretting that they have succeeded too well. Prices have been falling in Japan since 1995; in America and Germany the risk of deflation is greater than at any time since the 1930s. The longer growth remains below trend, the further inflation will fall. History argues that, once entrenched, deflation does a lot more damage than inflation, and is also far harder to defeat. But today's central bankers may be ill-prepared to fight it off. None more so than the European Central Bank (ECB). “The joy of inflation,” 2003)

According to (Leverett, 2008) , the decline of the U.S. economy has been caused by many factors. The shift in international energy markets has played a vital role in causing economic decline. Secondly, the increase in energy prices has benefited the largest oil and industrial exporters of the world and detrimented the U.S. The transfer of wealth from the U.S. to the industrial exporters takes away (Leverett, 2008)

Since businesses and households take some after inflation before rebuilding, it is not possible for them to take part in rapid economic growth

According to “The joy of inflation”, a point which goes in the favor of inflation is that it can even the path of adjustment Inflation , reccsion if the main cause is excess demand for goods and services, then government policy should look to reduce the level of aggregate demand.

If cost-push inflation is the root cause, production costs need to be controlled for the problem to be reduced.

If a country’s government employs monetary policy, it can control the growth of demand through an increase in interest rates and by a reduction in real money supply.



Investors withdraw their support

http://www.economist.com/node/1781195?Story_ID=1781195

The joy of inflation

May 15th 2003

from PRINT EDITION

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