[ccosm]

Is there a reason why every price increase is referred to as "inflation" these days? I thought inflation had more to do with debasement of a currency than price fluctuations due to supply and demand, with the key functional distinction being that the former can be hard to reverse while the latter can self-correct given time (e.g. the lumber price increase we saw this summer).

[yunohn]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Definition

Basically, inflation can be split into two types:

> An increase in the money supply may be called monetary inflation, to distinguish it from rising prices, which for clarity may be called "price inflation".

[usui]

When everything is inflation, nothing is.

When everything conflates to inflation, it stops people from realizing the real inflation happening right under them.