Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Inflation: A Moral Problem

Inflation is the depreciation of a currency’s purchasing power. This once occurred through governments debasing their currencies – such as mixing bronze into gold coinage – to artificially reduce their debts or fund increased spending. When such policies were implemented by the sixteenth-century Spanish monarchy, they were condemned as fraud by Spanish theologians.

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