How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes


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And so the process continued. Fish Reserve Notes were 
produced in ever greater numbers while the fi shing fl eet 
returned with fewer and fewer actual fi sh.
As offi cial fi sh shrank to just one-tenth of their former size
even Ally Greenfi n knew that he could not stretch the fi sh 
skin any further. When there were just bones left in the vault
he ran over to the Senate and called an emergency meeting. 
O
ne of the reasons that economists have been so 
successful in obscuring the source of infl ation is that 
they have short-circuited the very defi nition of the word. 
Nearly everyone believes that rising prices means infl ation. 
So if prices aren’t rising, there must be no infl ation. 
But rising prices are merely the results of infl ation! The 
infl ation is the expansion of the money supply. 
Any dictionary printed before 1990 defi nes infl ation purely 
as an expansion of the money supply. Newer editions have 
hedged their bets. But if you understand the true defi nition, 
you know that it is possible that prices can stay fl at, or even 
fall, while the money supply itself is being infl ated.
During a recession people wisely stop spending. When they 
do, demand drops and prices should fall. But sometimes these 
forces are counterbalanced by an expanding money supply 
that diminishes the value of currency. When infl ation is 
present in a recession, prices may go up (if the printing is fast 

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