stackyFACTSUsually, high inflation requires a booming economy, but stagflation manages to deliver skyrocketing prices while everyone is completely out of work. It is an economic paradox that brutally defies traditional models. Policymakers absolutely despise it because trying to fix the high prices immediately makes the job market even worse.
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