Stagflation

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We've learned that a moderate level of inflation is normally associated with a good economy.발음듣기

But what we saw - in particular, we saw in the early '70s, in 1973, when the oil embargo hit - is that we started to experience something called stagflation, or something that was labeled stagflation.발음듣기

It's this weird, bizarre circumstance where you have inflation at the same time as the stagnation in the economy.발음듣기

So that's where they get this kind of combination of words, of stagflation.발음듣기

Let's think about how that would happen.발음듣기

In particular, let's think about how that would happen due to a supply shock.발음듣기

There's other ways that you could get stagflation if you have strange regulations, over-regulation, if the government does weird things.발음듣기

But the classic example is a supply shock.발음듣기

When we say supply shock, it's something like an oil embargo, where all of a sudden the supply of oil, the supply of something, just goes down dramatically.발음듣기

And it could be because of some type of emergency, or it could be literally because of an embargo.발음듣기

And just think about how that would affect the rest of this chain.발음듣기

So if the supply of something dramatically goes down - We know that supply has an inverse relationship with price.발음듣기

So if supply goes down, then, bam, right there, you see price would immediately go up.발음듣기

And when we think about something like oil, you might say, hey, oil is only the part of my pocketbook where I drive around.발음듣기

But it's not, because even when you buy a fruit, you're really paying for the transportation cost.발음듣기

So the price of oil affects fruit, affects food, affects any good in services.발음듣기

It's one of these things that's pervasive through the economy.발음듣기

So the prices of a bunch of things could generally go up.발음듣기

Well, if the price of a bunch of things generally go up, what's going to happen to demand?발음듣기

Once again, inverse relationship right over here.발음듣기

Demand is going to plummet.발음듣기

If demand plummets, utilization plummets, investment plummets, and profit is going to plummet.발음듣기

And profit's going to plummet now because, one, utilization is going down, and price has gone up.발음듣기

But it's not the price that they can sell things at.발음듣기

Now price is fundamentally a big cost for - especially if you think of it from a US-centric point of view, if oil is an import, as in the case of the early '70s, then price going up is going to have, I guess they have an inverse relationship.발음듣기

So the price goes up.발음듣기

It's really going to be on the cost side.발음듣기

So once again, hitting profits hard.발음듣기

And if all of these things go down, that's just going to kill employment, kill wages, and then further make demand even worse.발음듣기

So stagflation is that situation where you have some type of shock to the system, where in the classic scenario it hits supply so hard it causes a massive inflation in one part of the economy, and as is the case of oil, a part that affects other parts of the economy.발음듣기

And then all of that kind of throws a monkey wrench in everything else.발음듣기

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