Inflation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...buying power. Borrowers also gain from inflation, since the future value of money is reduced. Deflation, which historically has...1974 by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), contributed to U.S. inflation. By the end of the 1970s...