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…to experience inflation, and inflation is likely to worsen social trust. That’s also why inflation tends to spiral until somebody steps in to restore trust in the economy. What causes…

…the People’s Trust Inflation happens “When money is no longer a trustworthy measure of value,” note Steve Forbes, Nathan Lewis, and Elizabeth Ames in their 2022 book, “Inflation.” Inflation is…

…high inflation? Gauging Pent-Up Inflation One way to roughly gauge the amount of pent-up inflation would be to look at the national debt and GDP from a similar year to…

…Fed certainly causes this asset price inflation, the Fed’s deeply negative real interest rate is also probably a large contributor to continuing our current inflation, especially the components of inflation…

…winter, increasing consumer demand as the country reopens, and one other sinister culprit: inflation. Inflation is an economic phenomenon that sees a steady rise of prices for goods and services…

…bump in inflation is transitory, at least in the near term — meaning prices rise, such as in the energy space, but fundamentals of inflation such as workers’ wages or…

…inflation statistics—which explains why inflation hasn’t risen above 10 percent—it also means we won’t benefit from the benefits of scenario two (i.e., a downward “ratchet”) once inflation starts to get…

…American people. Reported inflation rates would drop under Chained CPI because it adjusts for less expensive substitutes that people could buy to reduce the impact of inflation. For instance, if…

…the principles of limited government, with sound monetary policy that resulted in a steep decline in what had been rampant, double-digit inflation. Inflation Is a Monetary Phenomenon Friedman pointed out…

…in a speech that “moderate inflation forecasts looked plausible” even though “[t]he rise in inflation has been much greater and more persistent than forecasters generally expected.” One year later, as…

…environment it would actually be a plus.” That’s the same language we heard during Argentina’s launch into inflation whitewater, when it became the first nation to surpass the wild inflationary…

…soften the blow of the rising inflation numbers by presenting inflation data without food and gas. The Post claims not only that inflation isn’t a problem but also that “inflation…

…2 percent inflation benchmark. The Federal Reserve considers this spike in inflation “transitory”—a true enough statement, to a point. Some of the price spikes stem from anomalies due to the…

…Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank. Just as inflation has reached a 30-year-high of 6.2 percent—more than three times the Fed’s inflation target of 2 percent—the central bank keeps…

…Vladimir Putin—as if inflation didn’t start until the invasion of Ukraine began in February—Biden wants to turn the inflation issue from a referendum on his (lack of) leadership into a…

…impact” on inflation is a “lying hack or an ignorant rube.” One wonders if that group includes former Obama adviser Steve Rattner, who argues that inflation has been driven by…

…all up, by a lot. To that end, I suppose it’s accurate to say that month-to-month, inflation “hasn’t spiked” — but that just means inflation has been consistently bad under…

…to Solve Inflation As a general principle, if “inflation” is bad, then fixing “inflation” should be a good thing, right? Today, resolving the various supply-chain issues, and stabilizing the value…

…more months of rising inflation, Biden announced on August 10, 2023 that his pet legislation was not designed to reduce inflation. “I wish I hadn’t called it that because it…

…The slogan mirrors whom Biden thinks should lead the charge to tame inflation: The Federal Reserve has a primary responsibility to control inflation…. Congress could help right away by passing…

…Americans have watched November’s inflation numbers jump to the worst in nearly 40 years. Manchin says he worries BBB’s huge spending provisions could cause America’s already serious inflation problem to…

…as it seems because “we’ve seen inflationary numbers go down month-to-month.” The truth is, however, that inflation has gone up every month since the beginning of Biden’s presidency. https://twitter.com/theblaze/status/1501634299518402561?s=20&t=_kgW-wwavbHf3RJydx3Dhg In…

…cause any sort of worrisome inflation. When economists like former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers predicted that Biden’s massive spending package could “set off inflationary pressures of a kind we…

…real consequences of inflationary policies that Washington types are happy to brush off. Don’t listen to CNN journo-splaining to you “Why inflation can actually be good for everyday Americans and…

…do with inflation. The “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” is crammed with the very same spending, corporate welfare, price fixing, and tax hikes that were part of Build Back Better—long-desired…

Contrary to President Biden’s confident assertion that current inflation rates are “temporary,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell admitted on Wednesday that high inflation could be “more persistent” than expected. While…

…break from high inflation” in July. Axios took its cues from the White House and headlined its inflation article “Inflation drops to zero in July due to falling gas prices.”…

…similarly dominated by the narrative that “consumer prices fell” and inflation “cooled.” One graph featured in the Axios morning newsletter sought to prove to struggling Americans that inflation is a…

Every time some member of the ruling class says “inflation is transitory” or “we predict it will come down by the end of the year,” I read it as confirmation…

…higher inflation if governments adopted a spending limit metric linked to the growth in the Consumer Price Index. Higher inflation would allow government to grow faster, and it would also…

The “Inflation Reduction Act,” which analysis projects will actually increase inflation, is full of the typical prescription drug cost “solutions” offered by Beltway think tanks: allowing Medicare to “negotiate” the…

…never know that average food price inflation in recent years is actually the lowest in several generations. Below are three reasons that Americans should stop whining about food prices, and…

Despite months of Democrat and corporate media insistence that inflation is “cooling,” prices jumped another 3.4 percent in December. Americans not only paid more for goods at the end of…

President Joe Biden and his administration want nothing more than to take credit for what corporate media spin as “decreasing” inflation, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest consumer price…

Inflation under President Joe Biden is at a 40-year high, putting a strain on Americans who are simply trying to meet the basic needs of their families. New polling suggests…

…in Washington can’t understand, or care, when parents get crushed by skyrocketing food and gas bills, they may after November 8. The public outrage over inflation, and the left’s bumbling…