When talking about inflation there are two main types. I usually call them treasury and CPI inflation, but I don’t necessarily know if those are widely used terms. By treasury inflation I refer to the total supply of money, like the inverse of federal interest rates basically. By CPI inflation I mean the change of the consumer price index over time. Both are useful, but depending on the context one may be more useful than the other.

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    6 days ago

    Your first type (treasury) isn’t usually called inflation, AFAIK.

    That’s a metric more widely referred to as ‘money supply,’ and it has a number of different types even within that (M0, M1, M2, etc), depending on if you’re talking about simple cash, bank deposits, and other liquid assets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply#Measures_of_money_supply