Mises Daily
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Joseph T. Salerno
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consumer preferences. In view of the Austrian emphasis on inflationary monetary policy as the primary cause of the business cycle and the current financial crisis in part of the original note.) One kind of “good” inflation typically results when innovations and changes occur that permit people to economize on the amount of money call “cash-economizing” inflation tends to occur as a result of any financial innovation, including the invention of money-market mutual funds, ATM machines,