{"id":47475,"date":"2019-07-28T08:17:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T13:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47475"},"modified":"2019-07-28T08:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T13:17:31","slug":"is-inflation-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47475","title":{"rendered":"Is Inflation Inevitable?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/armstrongeconomics101\/economics\/is-inflation-inevitable\/\">Is Inflation Inevitable?\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Deflation-Inflation.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Deflation-Inflation-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88579\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mr. Armstrong is there any way we can not have inflation. If so how? If not what would you say 5% or more?<br>S<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong>&nbsp;It all depends on your definition. The type of inflation coming is more&nbsp;<strong>STAGFLATION<\/strong>&nbsp;where prices rise due to cost-push (shortages) but there is a declining economic growth. The more familiar inflation is a&nbsp;<strong>DEMAND<\/strong>&nbsp;lead event because the economy is booming. Because governments are desperate for money, they keep raising taxes and are increasing enforcement. This trend is&nbsp;<strong>DELATIONARY<\/strong>&nbsp;for it reduces disposable income. The&nbsp;<strong>INFLATIONARY<\/strong>&nbsp;pressure comes from the rising costs which are set in motion by raising taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then we add the impact of the climate chaos creating shortages in food and that furthers cost-push inflation. The end result will be the shift from&nbsp;<strong>PUBLIC&nbsp;<\/strong>to<strong>&nbsp;PRIVATE<\/strong>&nbsp;where people will run away from government debt on all levels and move to tangible assets to survive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Inflation Inevitable?\u00a0 QUESTION:&nbsp;Mr. Armstrong is there any way we can not have inflation. If so how? If not what would you say 5% or more?S ANSWER:&nbsp;It all depends on your definition. The type of inflation coming is more&nbsp;STAGFLATION&nbsp;where prices rise due to cost-push (shortages) but there is a declining economic growth. The more familiar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5496,202,5479],"class_list":["post-47475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-deflation","tag-martin-armstrong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47477,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47475\/revisions\/47477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}