True or false: If both the potential lender and the potential borrower correctly anticipate the rate of inflation, inflation will not redistribute wealth from the creditor to the debtor. Explain.

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True or false: If both the potential lender and the potential borrower correctly anticipate the rate of inflation, inflation will not redistribute wealth from the creditor to the debtor. Explain.
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‘Inflation’ refers to an increase(↑) in the ‘general price level’. It occurs when ‘money supply’ is more than the available ‘goods and services’. In other words, ‘Inflation’ is not high prices(P), rather it is a period of “rising prices”. A small rise in price(P) is not considered as ‘inflation’.

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