Inflation is just a process where too much currency is chasing few goods. That is the growth of currency is higher than the growth of the production of goods.
Let’s suppose you are shipwrecked at an island with two friends. Now one friend has 50 breads, you have a million rupees and the third person has lighter. Who is the worst-off? You will be worst off since they can just start exchanging goods with each other. Why they need your money, they can light a fire out of wooden logs rather than from your paper currency. So what I am trying to say is never just go on the amount of money someone has. But how much goods that amount can buy. This is a simple concept but this concept lies at the heart of inflation, foreign exchanges, investments etc. Many people just don’t understand why some countries have 1, 00,000 unit currency notes and some have only 100. It is just because overtime higher unit currency went through the shipwreck type conditions more than the other currency. Thus value of currency dropped and they have to increase the denominations of currency as it is awkward to give 100 hundred unit notes to buy bread. This is called inflation in modern terms.
what happened at the island of course is an extreme condition and something which we call hyperinflation, where the faith over currency just vanishes.
When there are limited goods and increasing money supply. What happens to the value of the money? It takes a dip. That is Inflation for you.
How the recent inflation is affecting you ??
Let’s suppose you are shipwrecked at an island with two friends. Now one friend has 50 breads, you have a million rupees and the third person has lighter. Who is the worst-off? You will be worst off since they can just start exchanging goods with each other. Why they need your money, they can light a fire out of wooden logs rather than from your paper currency. So what I am trying to say is never just go on the amount of money someone has. But how much goods that amount can buy. This is a simple concept but this concept lies at the heart of inflation, foreign exchanges, investments etc. Many people just don’t understand why some countries have 1, 00,000 unit currency notes and some have only 100. It is just because overtime higher unit currency went through the shipwreck type conditions more than the other currency. Thus value of currency dropped and they have to increase the denominations of currency as it is awkward to give 100 hundred unit notes to buy bread. This is called inflation in modern terms.
what happened at the island of course is an extreme condition and something which we call hyperinflation, where the faith over currency just vanishes.
When there are limited goods and increasing money supply. What happens to the value of the money? It takes a dip. That is Inflation for you.
How the recent inflation is affecting you ??
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