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Darren Quinn's avatar

The fisher equation, as the definition of the real rate, can be rewritten isolating inflation as the Nominal Rate minus the Rate, the real rate must exceed the nominal rate to achieve deflation.

Spell this out for me, please.

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Derek Mcdaniel's avatar

sorry about the wording, it's just a simple algebraic operation.

real = nominal - inflation

so

nominal = real + inflation

in order to have inflation less than zero, real >= nominal.

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