Acabei de ler um dos textos mais claros e elucidativos sobre um tema que me é caro: o sistema monetário e o impacto profundo que tem nas nossas vidas.
O autor é Dominic Frisby e escreve regularmente na revista inglesa Money Week. Permito-me citar abaixo o trecho que mais me impressionou. Podes ler o texto completo aqui.
How inflation benefits a very select group of people
We’ve grown used to inflation. Our central bank explicitly wants
prices to rise by 2% a year. Deflation – when prices fall – is deemed a
threat to economic growth.
Yet when gold and silver were officially used as money, prices were
constant. In fact, according to the wholesale price index, prices
actually drifted lower through the 19th century at a time when the
Western world was enjoying great economic growth and prosperity.
