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Reminder that inflation isn't a natural thing
It's something intentional to discourage people from having savings accounts and make them feel like they need to invest to "beat inflation".
We could 100% have zero inflation, it just wouldn't benefit the wealthy.
Inflation is just a tax on trying to save money.
Partially true. It's also an attempt to run away from deflation, which destroys economies. Holding a stable position with no inflation or deflation is not really possible in the real world.
Important to distinguish two types of deflation from each other.
Type one is the deflation that is caused by contraction of the money supply. In the current system if the M2 aggregate shrinks it causes deflation. Slowing economy causes bankruptcies which cause shrinking of M2 which looks as a deflation and forces more slowing down of economy as money gets scarce. Central banks inflate money supply to fight this kind of deflation. If you are not rich already, you will never see any money from these money bags.
Type two deflation is natural and happens organically with progress. We saw natural deflation for years in electronics, where it beated the inflation targets by central banks. And prices of electronics were going down in the whole sector without disturbance. Savings allows you to eventually buy more efficient products.
Type 2 in this case is not an overall deflation in the economy, just for one sector. It also seems hard to me to measure the inflation/deflation there since the sector doesn't have the same products over time, constantly innovating. Are people spending less money on electronics now than they used to? I find that hard to believe.
M2?
M2 is one way to measure the total amount of money in the economy. M0 is all cash money in circulation. M1 is M0 plus all money that can be spent at will, for instance in checking and savings accounts. M2 includes M0 and M1, plus stuff like short term deposits and money market funds.
When M2 shrinks it means there's less spendable money in the economy, so people spend less. Businesses tend to have to lower their prices to get people to buy. The value of a dollar (or a yen or whatever) goes up, which sounds awesome except for a few huge catches. Now it's always better to hang on to money rather than exchange it for goods and services. It also weirdly increases the value of debt, so anyone who borrowed anything going into this is screwed. If you're still reading there's other stuff that happens like it becomes almost impossible to avoid mass layoffs and monetary policy basically implodes but this shit is boring and I want to go back to getting high and watching the Simpsons
Dunno, maybe some other agregate. Long time no see the economic theory. One of the Mx...