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Did you ever have conversation with older adults that went something like: “When I was you age money could buy a lot more than it can these days …”
I guess that’s why they say “the good old days”.
In fact, the dollar was worth more “back in the good old days”, and 1_______ were a lot lower than they are today.
Economists use the terms purchasing power, or value, to describe the quantity and quality of goods and services we can buy with our 2_______. When prices increase, our money cannot buy as much. Its purchasing power declines. When prices fall, the opposite occurs. Or, to put it another way, when prices 3_______, the value of money falls; when prices fall, its value rises.
An extended period of rising prices is called inflation. One in which prices are falling is called deflation. The value of the dollar decreases during periods of inflation, and increases during 4_______ of deflation.
The purchasing power of the dollar has been shrinking during most of our century.
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