A Visual Guide to Inflation

I originally found this on the mint.com blog.

This guide shows how inflation is measured, why it is bad and argues that there is a sweet spot in inflation where the economy can be stable and predictable.

You can also see how demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, and built-in inflation work. It also talks about the monetary view of inflation, that is, print more money--then money has less value sending prices up--consequently inflation.

The guide touches briefly on the gold standard, but merely mentions that we don't do that here in the US.

Last modified about 2 months ago.

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