There are many different kinds, including diphenhydramine (Benadryl), brompheniramine (Dimetapp), and loratadine (Claritin). If you have a cold, the drugsâ side effects may help you sleep, but they arenât the best choice for cold symptoms, Dr. Hueston says.
The costs associated with inflation are as follows: Anticipated Inflation: This is by now well-understood. In a host of monetary models, inflation causes price distortions that misallocate resources. These distortions are associated with the use of non-interest-bearing money as a medium of exchange.
1/r. If we take r as 5 percent for the sake of illustration, my earlier illustrative current-period cost ratio for a 5 percent benchmark inflation rate would be 0.021 percent of GNP, which would translate into a present-value cost ratio of 0.42 percent of GNP (or $27.3 billion), and so on.