Economics

What Increases GDP?

The external balance of trade is the most essential of all the components that make up a country’s GDP. When the total value of products and services sold by local producers to foreign countries surpasses the total value of foreign goods and services purchased by domestic consumers, a country’s GDP rises. A country is said […]

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Who Does Inflation Hurt?

According to a new research released Monday by the Joint Economic Committee Republicans, American consumers are dealing with the highest inflation rate in more than three decades, and the rise in the price of basic products is disproportionately harming low-income people. Higher inflation, which erodes individual purchasing power, is especially devastating to low- and middle-income

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How Deficit Financing Causes Inflation?

Increased deficits do not lead to higher inflation through monetary accommodation or crowding out, according to the transaction cost hypothesis of separate wants for money and bonds. According to this idea, private monetization turns bonds into near-perfect money substitutes, making deficits immediately inflationary. What are the effects of deficit financing? Deficit financing has a negative

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