Re:Why inflation is not a threat
by j7ake on Sunday March 14, 2021 @10:09AM
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Yeah that is true. Maybe I'll just say that the size of the cake (economy) grows but is fairly independent of how you slice the cake. So printing money doesn't increase the size of the economy.
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Yes, but with a larger cake, it makes sense to have more slices.
There are other reasons that inflation is good too, having to do with sticky wages and recessions. I'm not sure how to work that into the cake analogy though.
Yeah the reality is that the size of the cake changes, and slicing the cake in different ways can feed back to the growth of the cake.
The perceived value of each slice relies a lot in the psychology of the public.
It's the job of the central bank to make sure the slices are proportioned properly and the perceived value of each slice of cake is maintained.