Fill the blanks using the given words in the box as could rid consumer does continuously rather keep hold to It is commonly observed that although money incomes ………(1)…….going up over the years, we never seem to become much better off. Prices are rising……..(2)…….. This condition is called inflation. The money supply is becoming inflated so that each unit of it becomes less valuable. (In recent years we have gotten used …….(3)………higher and higher rates of inflation. What ……(4)……be bought twenty years ago for $1 now costs well over $2. Present trends indicate that this rate of inflation is tending to rise …….(5)……..than to fall). If in the real world our money incomes go up at the same rate …….(6)…….prices, one might think that inflation doesn’t not matter. But it……(7)…... When money is losing value, it lacks one of the necessary qualities of money- stability of value. It is no longer acceptable as a store of value, and it becomes an unsuitable standard of deferred payments. Nobody wants to …….(8)……an asset that is losing value, so people try to get ……(9)…..of money as quickly as possible. Inflation therefore stimulates ……..(10)…spending and discourages saving.