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- From: david@mail.sas.upenn.edu (R. David Murray)
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- Subject: It's not a Depression because prices aren't falling?
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 21:17:16 GMT
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- My grasp of monetary theory is weak, to say the least, but I thought
- I understood that cutting interest rates as the Fed has been doing
- was an inflationary action. I was puzzled, then, that the 'inflation
- rate' is so low. Then it occured to me: in the Depression, we were on
- a hard money standard, and so prices fell. Now, we are on a fiat
- standard. So suppose real prices are actually falling so rapidly that
- the fairly significant inflation of the money supply being practiced
- by the Fed can just barely keep up?
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