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- noun economics A policy or belief that encourages
inflation .
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Examples
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The "inflationism" intellectual and policy doctrine was instrumental in forging a historic market distortion: the perception of mortgage Credit "moneyness."
Safehaven Safehaven.com 2010
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The Federal Reserve's experiment with inflationism will end badly.
Sen. Kyl Gets Taxes Right, But What About The Dollar? Paul Hoffmeister 2010
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The inflationism of the currency systems of Europe has proceeded to extraordinary lengths.
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The inflationism of the currency systems of Europe has proceeded to extraordinary lengths.
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The inflationism of the currency systems of Europe has proceeded to extraordinary lengths.
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The inflationism of the currency systems of Europe has proceeded to extraordinary lengths.
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Because when a country embarks on deficit financing and inflationism, you wipe out the middle class and wealth is transferred from the middle class and the poor to the rich.
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Because when a country embarks on deficit financing and inflationism, you wipe out the middle class and wealth is transferred from the middle class and the poor to the rich.
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This idea that the government is an economic planner, that inflationism is good, that planned economy is worthwhile, this foreign policy is a good idea.
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On the separate matter of the Fed pursuing an inflationary policy: inflationism is one of the oldest and crudest economic fallacies.
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