| Interview original date: July 22nd, 2020 Topics: Jeff’s definition of Deflation, Inflation. Monetary Deflation. Consumer behavior and its effect on prices. Production, wages/income, labor market, labor market destruction. UBI, demand, unemployment, supply, spending, savings, credit. 1930s and destruction of deflation, 1800s and deflation then. Did the Long Depression really exist? Gold Standard after the Civil War, fixed money supply, silver agitation. Different kinds of deflation: Monetary Deflation and Productive Deflation. The FED and their 2% inflation target. |
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