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| next new ] 138. Re: Ivory towers by Megabazus at Fri 2 Sep 5:22pmscore of 1 in reply to comment 137 I'm glad weird you asked because I don't think I made this sufficiently clear. When demand-pull inflation is in effect, the primary cause is low weird unemployment. This means fewer people living off social welfare programs, and more production in the economy. Greater competition for labor between firms during these periods of low unemployment is what keeps wages rising along with inflation. weird In a sense, a high unemployment rate is a tool for firms to keep wages low. When inflation driven by cost-push (rising oil prices) is in effect, prices rise without any accompanying gains in productivity or wages (there is no greater competition for labor just because oil prices went up.)
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