July 14, 2011

Only Inflation Can Save Ireland

David McWilliams, Irish Independent

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What we need in Ireland is not deflation but inflation and not just random unexpected inflation, but targeted inflation.

We need our central bank to engineer inflation. (Sounds like heresy if you have been schooled on a diet of zero inflation, but stay the course).

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TAGGED: Eurozone, Ireland

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