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Daily Archives: July 4th, 2008

It’s contraction boy, not stagflation!

Friday, July 4, 2008

Let’s first define what stagflation means
Stagflation is the state of an economy where inflation combined with stagnation locks a society into slow-to-negative economic growth and rising unemployment, invariably including recession.
Policies which promote growth in the money supply to allow consumers to afford higher priced oil contribute as a cause for runaway inflation, even if implemented [...]

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Signs of a recession?

Friday, July 4, 2008

Happy Birthday, America!
The typical economic cycle consists of two main phases: Boom and Recession. The phase leading to a boom is called expansion and that leading to a recession is called contraction. Another way of looking at this  is,  considering expansion the transition from recession-boom and contraction the transition from boom-recession.
 

 
10 signs that an economy’s in recession:

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