provide evidence of two countries that have used supply-side mesures to reduce inflation.?
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Most countries have adopted supply side economics for cetain periods - example during Prez Reagan's time (USA), Austria and UK (following Keyne's findings that public investment helped reduce inflation).\n\nSupply-side economics developed during the 1970s of the Keynesian dominance of economic policy, and in particular the failue of demand management to stabilise Western economies in the stagflation of the 1970s, in the wake of the oil crisis in 1973. [1] (Case & Fair, 1999: 780).\n\nIt drew on a range of non-Keynesian economic thought, particularly the Austrian school, e.g. Joseph Schumpeter and monetarism.
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It is product of the conservative party's policy's, they have implimented supply side economics which is always wrong which leads to inflation and then depression, or recession. If you have a pile of boxes on the floor and you want to move them if you go over and pick up the top box all that you move is the top box. If you pick up the bottom box all the boxes move including the top. Repuglicans always choose to move just the top box.
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Check out the sites on Global economy. This is much too indepth for short Y answers.
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Because of money inflation.
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the main cause of inflation is the government increasing the supply of money. But it is a little more complicated than that.  When the price of oil increases, the costs of everything that depend on oil also increase, for example. That then causes an increase in prices charged to workers. Workers then demand increased wages to maintain their standard of living. Employers give them higher wages without too much fuss because they know that they can pass the increased costs on to consumers.  The government facilitates all of this by printing more money. The government loves inflation because they borrow a lot of money at fixed interest rates. If they can cause the value of the dollar, peso, pound, euro, or whatever to decline they do not have to pay back all of what they borrowed. A neat trick and used successfully by all governments. Inflation also increases tax revenue.  If a person buys a share of stock for $100 and ten years later sells it for $200, he has to pay taxes on $100.  But if the inflaction rate is 4%, he actually made only $52. So the government makes out like a bandit again. The same goes for all borrowers.  \n\nOn the other hand those who lend money are loosers. Consequently, inflation tends to dry up the sources of capital. It is better to spend your money than to save it. Hence, that is why people have not been saving money since 1999, because Greenspan reduced the interest rate to 0. People are not as stupid as the government is.
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Supply side economics has never worked, it has always resulted in a recession. This administration is no different. We would really be in the dump if it was not for the war. Clinton used consumer driven economics, he raised taxes on the very rich and reinvested it into infrastructure, which created good paying jobs, when these people started buying things it created more jobs and the whole thing snowballed to the largest expansion in the country's history. When he left office he left the budget in the black and was paying down on the national debt. It did not take Bush long to destroy all the advances that we had made and are now going in debt at a record clip.
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MSN.COM has information.  I did a graph of the Euro as an example.  However, most people who play with Forex lose money.  Watch out for the scammers. (See Link 3)
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We are experiencing relatively high levels of inflation. That is why our dollars are losing value in comparison. But you should remember that this makes American goods more expensive, which will decrease net exports....this should make some conservatives happy (those who argue that we have a negative trade balance with countries like China). Anyway, this is not necessarily a bad situation, it just depends on how you view it on the political spectrum. Oh, P.S. I am a conservative also, I just read what I wrote and realized that it came across wrong. No offense
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In my opinion the Federal Reserve monetary policy has been lagging what is going on in the economy for the past decade.  The economy has been cooling a bit over the last several months following strong growth driven by President Bush's tax cuts.  Starting early in 2004 there has been strong demand for commodity products particularly in China and India.  This has put some upward pressure on prices.  This pressure was aided by the high prices for petroleum.\n\nI think that BB is making a statement in reaction to this.  \n\nOver the past few months petroleum prices have dropped, the housing market has tanked, holiday consumer demand so far is weak, etc.  All these are deflationary.  So, once again the Fed has it backwards.\n\nThe economy will be fine so long as the Democrats don't start raising taxes.  If this happens we will rapidly move into a recession.
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Its hard to tell for now because its still 2006, but at the end of the year you can use this link to calculate inflation.\n\nhttp://www.westegg.com/inflation/
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Simple economics. USD is becoming weaker because of inflation, the US government printing a lot of money, huge government debt, and about a million other reasons.
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In economics, inflation is an increase in the money supply or an increase in prices.\n\nThe two most obvious versions of this, each held by some economists to be "real" inflation, are for prices of goods and services in the currency in question to rise, or for the money supply to increase.\n\nPrice inflation is closely akin to "cost of living" measurement, where a "basket" of goods, and comparing the prices at two intervals, and adjusting for changes in the intrinsic basket. But, technically, this is not raw inflation; it is an attempt to determine real-life value of money compared to the members of the society in question, adding other factors like increased expectations.\n\nRaw inflation measurement does not adjust for expectations, but directly measures the change in the price of goods.\n\nThere are different measurements of price inflation, depending on the basket of goods selected. The most common measures are of consumer inflation, producer inflation and GDP deflators, or price indexes. The last measures inflation in the entire economy.\n\nGeneral price inflation is a fall in the purchasing power of money within an economy, as compared to currency devaluation which is the fall of the market value of a currency between economies. The extent to which these two phenomena are related is open to economic debate, though the comparison of a currency to foreign currencies is based on investor demand for currencies, and therefore must at least partially be a matter of perception.\n\nBoth of these are often caused by money being added to an economy, either as printed currency or as virtual money lent to banks or other entities. This is called currency inflation, and can cause price inflation or currency devaluation. But, because the general amount of wealth gradually changes in an economy (as long-lasting things are created, new technologies invented, et cetera), a small amount of currency inflation need not cause price inflation.\n\nSome terms related to inflation:\n\ndeflation is a rise in the purchasing power of money, and a corresponding lowering of prices (the opposite of inflation). \nDisinflation refers to slowing the rate of inflation, that is, prices are still rising, but at a slower rate than before. \nReflation is a term used to denote inflation after a period of deflation, meaning inflation designed to restore prices to a previous level. \nHyperinflation is rapid inflation without any tendency towards equilibrium - that is, an inflation that produces even more inflation. \nIn some contexts the word "inflation" is used to mean an increase in the money supply, which is seen as a cause of price increases. Some economists (of the Austrian school) still prefer this meaning of the term, rather than to mean the price increases themselves. Thus, for example, some observers refer to inflation in the 1920s in the United States even though the prices of some baskets of goods were not increasing at the time. The word "inflation" will be used to refer to a general increase in prices unless otherwise specified.\n\n\nEconomic role\n\nOne effect of small steady inflation is that it is difficult to renegotiate some prices, and particularly wages and contracts, downwards, so that with generally increasing prices it is easier for relative prices to adjust. Many prices are "sticky downward" and tend to creep upward, so that efforts to attain a zero inflation rate (a constant price level) punish other sectors with falling prices, profits, and employment. Thus, some business executives see mild inflation as "greasing the wheels of commerce". Efforts to attain complete price stability can also lead to deflation (steadily falling prices), which can be very destructive, risking bankruptcy for companies that do not react, ultimately resulting in recession (or even depression).\n\nMany in the financial community regard the "hidden risk" of inflation as an essential i
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Generally, low developing countries are poor ... not just the people, but the government itself. And for the government to meet its obligations, it often simply makes more money -- but this additional currency leads to the devaluation of the existing currency and leads to inflation.
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the rates are going to be the same, but the cutoffs will increase slightly due to inflation.\n\nHowever, these won't be announced for another few months.
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hey u can get a whole report enjoy :)\nwww.euro.who.int/document/aiq/10effso2.pdf
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Rising prices of fuel increases inflation because almost all man made fibers, plastics etc. are created using oil.  Therefore the cost of raw materials goes up.  \n\nThe factory that produces the finished product has to use energy to produce their goods whatever they may be.\n\nThese goods then have to be shipped to market using transportation that requirs fuel.  \n\nAll this leads to a spiral of inflated cost throughout the supply chain which causes an increase in inflation throughout the global economy.
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If more money is printed, inflation increases. An extreme example is pre-WWII Germany, where the Mark fell from 4.2 to the dollar to 1,000,000 to the dollar in August 1923 and 4,200,000,000,000 November 20th. The only way to fulfill the needs of everyone would be to equalize the amount of money that people have. As long as some have more than others, some people will not be able to buy what they need.