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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: January 17, 2015, 10:06:04 PM »

Would lower inflation due to lower gas prices be a bad thing though, except for a few industries? If anything, more industries will be able to pass through more of their cost as their spending on transportation would go down.

The difficulty would be if it led to general deflation thruout the economy and not lower inflation.  Deflation can lead to a vicious circle that kills employment as people put off purchases because the money they can save by deferring until later is worth more to them than the gratification of owning something now rather than later.
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« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2015, 08:50:59 PM »
« Edited: March 01, 2015, 08:53:22 PM by True Federalist »

Low inflation benefits savers only if interest rates remain static.  Otherwise what is important to savers is the differential between interest rates and inflation rates and that differential tends to be independent of inflation.  If there is a relation it's probably inversely related.  When inflation is low, central banks tend to set the differential low to encourage spending rather than saving and when it is high, central banks tend to set the differential high to encourage saving rather than spending.
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