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So perhaps the war was irrelevant; grade inflation was the inevitable consequence of upheaval in the tenure system.
But (the argument goes) the 1970s inflation taught investors the brutal lesson that there is no safety in bonds: Your investment can evaporate if interest rates rise, or if inflation devalues the bonds' purchasing power.
Effectively calling for an end to the capital-gains tax, he wrote, "With a rate of inflation over 8 percent, a 20 percent tax on capital gains quickly rises above 100 percent in its average impact on assets held more than a few years."
But macroeconomics --the study of economy-wide events like inflation and deflation, booms and slumps--was in a state of arrested development that left it utterly incapable of making sense of the Great Depression.
-- The Administrator shall, by regulation, adjust the penalty specified insubsection (a)(1) for inflation, based on the Consumer Price Index, on November 15, 1990 and annually thereafter.