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The Role of Expected Inflation in Accelerating Inflation
Milton Friedman argued that when unemployment is kept low, inflation continuously increases because of the role of expected inflation. As wage and price setters begin to anticipate rising prices, they incorporate these expectations into their wage demands and pricing decisions, which in turn fuels further inflation, making the simple Phillips curve relationship misleading.
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