Jul.02 — Steen Jakobsen, chief economist and chief investment officer at Saxo Bank A/S, discusses inflation, the changing workforce and modern monetary theory, which argues that governments with their own currency can’t go broke, and can keep spending until inflation becomes a problem. “We are in a world where only inflation can save the central banks from the quagmire they put the world into,” he says in an interview on “Bloomberg Markets: European Open.”
In This Story: Inflation
In economics, inflation refers to a general progressive increase in prices of goods and services in an economy. When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation corresponds to a reduction in the purchasing power of money.