Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, The, Business School Edition (5th Edition) (What's New in Economics)
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Chapter 11, Problem 8Q
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Whether the below statement is true, false or uncertain. Explain the answer.

“If inflation had not risen in the 1960s and 1970s, the banking might be healthier today.’

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The interest-rate risk, falling stock market, increasing unemployment, oil prices, currency speculations, greedy businessmen and easy-money policies by the central bank were the important financial factors prevailing in the 1960s and 1970s that led to a period of high inflation.

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