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Isn't that a self-correcting problem? If the money supply were held constant, and people didn't invest, then production efficiency would not improve, and there won't be deflation, right?

Even for "risk-free" assets like cash/bonds, inflation risk always exists. It's essentially a risk that you don't have a counterparty willing to trade the things you want.



"self correcting" is a funny way to label macroeconomic shutdown.

The goal of inflation is to motivate productive work before the opportunity is lost due to idlenss.




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