Your answer to your own question is not quite correct. Inflation can be caused by printing more money, but that is not the definition of inflation. Also, printing more money is not the only cause of inflation.
Inflation is defined as an increase in the average price of goods and services in a country. Please note that this is the average price. During a time when there is inflation, some prices may actually go down while others go up. So just because the price of one thing goes up doesn't mean there is inflation. And just because the price of something else goes down does not mean there is no inflation.
Instead, the government takes the prices of a set group of things that people need to buy. They measure the price of those things and compare it to the price some time before. If the price of all those things put together has gone up, we know there has been inflation.
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