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Many modern economists postulate that one of the most significant causes for inflation since 1998 is the overly-frequent restructuring done by large publicly-traded companies so that their most profitable revenue streams are encapsulated in private subsidiaries. A notable example of this being how the video game giant Nintendo decided to have their very profitable Pokemon IP be fully owned by their subsidiary Game Freak Inc. This behavior causes the resultant profits to avoid being part of stock dividend payouts; and thus the monetary trickle into shareholder hands is largely blocked off. For a better explanation about this phenomenon, search "pokemon inflation".