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> Monetary inflation It's incorrect to refer to monetary inflation as just "inflation." If you're talking about price inflation, we're not seeing that yet - al
by MiroF 6y ago
> Monetary inflation
It's incorrect to refer to monetary inflation as just "inflation." If you're talking about price inflation, we're not seeing that yet - although 5 year inflation expectations are popping back up again [0]
So far, it's looking like the Fed is doing as best as could be expected.
[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIE https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIE
- maerF0x0 6y agoSure. But we are talking about inflated asset prices. Printing more money just makes the truly valuable things take more units of an inflated currency pool
- MiroF 6y ago> Printing more money just makes the truly valuable things take more units of an inflated currency poo Only true if everything else holds constant. Also, wouldn't just apply to asset prices but all prices. Everything else, unfortunately, is not holding constant. [0] [0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
- maerF0x0 6y agoNow this is just my conspiracy theorist side coming out, but I think the only reason the government cares about frequency of exchange is that they get a cut on each event. The more frequent the exchange, the sooner they get 100% of it back.