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True enough, any increased flow of money tends to be inflationary. But the next chapter should be headed "deflation," for when the veteran and other people with fixed incomes have been squeezed dry, the market will fall out under the inflated inventories and the boom will end in bust. Let the wage earner sacrifice, you may say, let the veteran suffer, but in the long run no economy can continue to distribute inflated profits to one small class and inflated costs, a huge consumer tax, to the great mass of men and still be prosperous...
...willingness of the buying public to back up a bill that was designed for its protection. With or without government price control, the fuse on inflation is sputtering behind the customer's back, ready to lead up to a boom which will very literally leave the public "bust" unless it turns around and takes preventive action...
...turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant on a field turquoise; 4) a turquoise sailboat floating among gilt stars. The motto: Pourquoi pas? Cheapest perfume: $30 an ounce. Its original formula, confided Mother Gloria, was discovered by Partner Maurice Chalom in his French chateau, hidden in an old bust...
...boom & bust, people had not worried about inflation. Their concern then had been their personal high cost of living; inflation was a vaguely understood thing that happened in Europe and had to do with printing-press money. Now it seemed that most Americans were worried more about the inflationary aspects of price rises than they were about the immediate high cost of living. They would wait & see how high prices might...
...goods, notably housing, there remained a big gap. No one really believed it would be bridged for several years. But that might not be wholly a misfortune: when prices start to recede on some fronts, continued house-building could keep the postwar cycle from ending in too vigorous a bust...