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False. Inflation is as an economic term, the issuance of currency.

Pretending like it's a measure of the price of goods is a political (not economics) tactic used by governments to obscure it-- because the price of goods are affected by other things--like increases in productivity, lower cost goods from overseas and the like.




> In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.

Currency issuance is related. Is not the same thing




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