Tag: inflation
Jan. 20, 2023
Which Economic Misery Makes You More Miserable: Inflation or Unemployment?
Shawkat Hammoudeh, Ph.D. The 1970s were miserable, partly because of both high inflation and high unemployment. That period is known as the “stagflation decade.” The…
Dec. 4, 2015
The balancing act of inflation and deflation
Overall inflation (the combined finished goods and service inflation) in the United States’ economy has been below the 2 percent target since 2008. Attempts to…
