If the exchange value of gold remains unchanged, a general rise of gold prices is possible only when the exchange value of all commodities rises.
If the exchange value of commodities remains unchanged, then a general rise in their gold prices is possible only in the case of a fall in the exchange value of gold.
An increasing volume of currency combined with a general fall of prices or a diminishing volume of currency in connection with a general rise of prices is one of the best known phenomena in the history of prices.
Now it will be plain to all, how there may easily be and often is a general rise or fall of Prices while a rise or fall of Values is impossible.
How is such a general rise in prices possible, if the quantity theory be true?
It is strange indeed to find an Austrian seeing in a rise in money costs a cause of a general rise in prices.
In point of fact, there would be a general rise in prices and wages in the South, which, leading to an expansion of credit, would only gradually and in no definite ratio lead to an increase in money drawn from outside.
And their natural tendency is to cause a general risein price, and what is the same thing, a diffused diminution in the purchasing power of money.
But in so far as that prosperity is based on a general rise of prices, it is only imaginary.
A general rise of prices is a rise only in name; whatever anyone gains on the article which he has to sell he loses on the articles which he has to buy, and so he is just where he was.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "general rise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
