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Inflation increases the price of goods and services over time, effectively decreasing the number of goods and services you can buy with a dollar in the future as opposed to a dollar today. If wages remain the same but inflation causes the prices of goods and services to increase over time, it will take a larger percentage of your income to purchase the same good or service in the future. Here’s a chart of the inflation rate from the late 1600s to today. Notice that since the 1950s, the rate of inflation has been positive for nearly every year.
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D) All of the above
American author John Ernst Steinbeck Jr (1902-1968) was notable for his prolific career, with 27 books, and many prizes and awards. Most notably the Nobel prize, in 1962, where in the award cerimony they stated, confirming the "all of aspects above" option: "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do, sympathetic humour and keen social perception."
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1962/index.html