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I have no idea what you are saying. Also what is "just math" and why can't it be reversed? Inflation can go down, it's not a purely up percentage, you can have

I have no idea what you are saying. Also what is "just math" and why can't it be reversed? Inflation can go down, it's not a purely up percentage, you can have negative inflation. What do you mean by "number of dollars approximately doubles in 2"?

hartator 5y ago
> What do you mean by "number of dollars approximately doubles in 2"? I think OP was talking about monetary inflation. We nearly double the money supply so it should translate to a nearly double price inflation.
- dlp211 5y ago
  That is not how inflation works.
  - hartator 5y ago
    All thing being equal. 2x monetary supply should translate to 2x price inflation. It’s literally how inflation work. The reason we don’t have that’s crazy inflation is not everything is equal. Mostly at natural the economy should deflate right now.
abeppu 5y ago
You can have negative inflation, but don't central banks work really hard to avoid that because (the theory goes) deflation will kill spending?
- dlp211 5y ago
  Yes, and what's your point?
- jjk166 5y ago
  Pretty big difference between "we want to but we can't" and "we can but we don't want to"