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> Inflation is actually the increase in the money supply. The term is used wrong almost everywhere today.

The word has multiple meanings. That’s monetary inflation. The primary meaning in use today is price inflation.

> Word X means Y, NOT Z

Wittgenstien would like a word. Words always mean whatever the hell the speaker thinks they mean, which is always unverifiable. We should always endeavor to understand what people _think they mean_ instead of insisting on some (faulty) denotation.

The inflation argument is always frustrating. In a vacuum, inflating the _supply of money_ would delate the _price of money_ which inflates the _prices of goods_. Most people say "inflation" to mean the price of goods, but it does no good to insist that one definition means you can't use the word in other ways!

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