We just spent $100 for lunch at Chili's. Would Chili's ever lower the price of their hamburger to pre-inflation prices?
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That would be called deflation which can have equally bad, if not worse, effects than inflation on regular people. Wages, the value of your house when you sell it, the stock market, on and on...our economy and most businesses are built on quarter-over-quarter "growth" however fake it may be. A decline in revenue for a business leads to layoffs, which leads to suffering for regular people.