For a very long time, economists believed that Stagflation could not exist. Either it was one: say high inflation. Or it was the other, low growth. But never, they thought both together.
However, that debate came to a screeching halt in the 1970s. When t...
For a very long time, economists believed that Stagflation could not exist. Either it was one: say high inflation. Or it was the other, low growth. But never, they thought both together.
However, that debate came to a screeching halt in the 1970s. When the American economy suffered from both barrels of the most virulent high inflation, low economic growth that the country had ever seen.
Check out these episodes first.