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Deflation: Why Falling Prices Are Bad

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A play money lab has students carry a $100,000 mortgage through five rounds of five percent price drops so the real debt burden grows even though the dollar figure never moves. Discussion work asks whether FDR's 1933 gold standard exit was defensible or just lucky.

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