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Inflation is generalized increase of prices of goods and services in an economy, along with a corresponding fall in the purchasing value of money. The rate of inflation refers to the increase of the price of goods and services over time.

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What would cause the velocity of money (V) to increase / accelerate (or at least stop falling)

[...] what event(s) or scenerio(s) can you think of that would cause the velocity of money (V) to start increasing / accelerating again [...] That commercial banks stop using injected liquidities to …
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How does printing money cause inflation?

WHY and HOW monetary issue causes inflation. When a central bank emits money (or decrease key interest rates), commercial banks will be able to refinance themselves at a lower cost. … If supplies stay constant, markets will reach a new equilibrium via prices rising due to these stimulated demands $\implies$ inflation. …
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Is there consensus on why inflation is not rising?

Inflation took time to rise because commercial banks have used injected liquidities to consolidate their balance sheet instead of stimulating demands by creating credits (that did not previously exist … On March 10, 2016, the ECB has even considered the possibility of giving 200€ per month and per person to stimulate inflation. And this with the main idea of circumventing the commercial-bank system. …
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Why is price dispersion from Inflation called relative price “distortion”?

Why is price dispersion from Inflation called relative price “distortion”? … E.g. a tax on, say, tobacco, has to be distortive to be useful, i.e. it has to be greater than inflation, even if such intervention can actually generate deadweight losses. …
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Deflation and positive real interest rate

Deflation means decreasing prices, but with the rigidity of wages (although this depends on the country in which you are), it means (i) higher unemployment rates or/and (ii) lower profits. (i) higher …
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Basic Reason of Why the Money Supply Needs to Increase?

Since growth is very often conceived as being demand led, more demands (of goods or whatever) at a constant level of supply (of those goods or whatever) in turn means inflation, until levels of supply, …
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Inflation and stock price

Be those as they are, inflation generates a downward pressure on real rates (of return). … [...] does this mean that the nominal stock price will not change due to inflation change. …
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How to convert an historic value denoted in foreign currency to a modern value in local curr...

The difference you get is due to the different methods that are followed (in the two countries over the period of time) to compute inflation rates. … BTW, I would go for using only the country's trajectory of inflation rates that would (subjectively admittedly) look the most exact, the most exhaustive or the most consensual. …
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Why has M1 grown a lot faster than M3 after the financial crisis?

And can this be an explanation for why we have not seen stronger inflation? Precisely. … These precautious behaviours led the money multiplier to be somehow blocked (to ~$1$), i.e. the expansion of M3 is the main conventional inflation engine. …
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Does inflation/expected inflation in a given country devalue its currency or increase its va...

But if Britain hadn't done anything to keep the pound's value high (in relation to the German mark), it would have decreased because of inflation. …
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Why did it take so much QE by the ECB to raise the Eurozone inflation to 2%?

On March 10, 2016, the ECB has even considered the possibility of giving 200€ per month and per person to stimulate inflation. And this with the main idea of circumventing the commercial-bank system. …
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Norway inflation and exchange rates

Less demands means weaker upward pressure on prices, which in turn means less inflation. 1 - Facing the increasing masses of savings, Norway's central bank may have started to decrease the interest rate … market, those must first buy home country's currency -- this exerts a downward pressure on the value of Norway's currency, which in turn causes a relative price increase of imported goods $\iff$ imported inflation
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