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I wasn't saying it is normal. I was saying corpos gaslight us by telling us it's normal.
According to the classical economic theories they cite (which are honestly pseudoscience), prices are expected to rise and fall in cycles of inflation and deflation, keeping the system more or less stable over time. But they only cite the part that says "inflation is normal" and not the part where it says "and it alternates with periods of deflation."
So they push their prices higher and higher because "infinite growth," but any time there's even a suggestion that prices might come back down, they panic and scream about a recession and they make the government intervene, because deflation would make their stock prices fall and they'd rather just keep screwing everybody over.
It does seem a bit absurd we ever called ourselves Keynesians. Its like we are constantly reliving Irving Fishers debt-deflation theory, and we keep allowing new asset bubbles to form. Though I think governments are equally complicit, because obviously rapid debasement allows a lot of unfunded spending, which are what voters are always pining for.