Deflation and Social Welfare Rates

12/06/2009

Karl Whelan over on irisheconomy.ie has a useful blog on the latest CSO CPI figures. He cautions against citing deflation in the housing mortgage sector to claim that social welfare recipients are benefiting from deflation as much as some people infer.

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