Are normal Americans worried about inflation? Jeong says nope, it's a ginned-up outrage because rich people's "parasitic assets aren’t doing as well as they’d like."
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But also be thankful that Americans have been spared the worst of soaring food costs.
The cost of interest on the national debt will soon be a huge chunk of change.
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A good way to know you’re living through high inflation is when you’re discouraged from talking about it.
The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth.
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But the people in power won’t even say as much, let alone do something about it.
Profligate government spending supposedly has nothing to do with it.
As inflation increases, we need a low-debt environment.
Monetary policy can't work optimally until we free up the economy in other important ways.
Prices are up all over the economy. Here are scenarios about what might happen next.
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The Wyoming Republican believes bitcoin provides a serious alternative store of value, will spur renewable energy, and just might save the dollar.
A new study finds that as the government expands, the private sector shrinks.
The Commerce Department is planning to hike tariffs on Canadian lumber from about 9 percent to more than 18 percent.
The value of our money may be the latest victim of pandemic-era policy.
The economic aid package paid people not to work. So it's no surprise that many aren't working.
The short-term inflation outlook isn't as grim as it looks, but the long-term situation could be awful
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
A new round of hyperinflation was taking a heavy toll on daily life, even before the coronavirus hit.
Instead of repealing tariffs that are raising aluminum prices, politicians are instead trying to lower aluminum prices by legislative fiat.
Neither party is serious about reining in spending. This is unsustainable.
The Trump administration may sidestep Congress to get another tax cut passed.
Venezuela attempts to combat economic illiteracy with more economic illiteracy.
Mainstream economists were trained to believe that currencies need to be managed by central banks. So this new form of money is...hard to grasp.
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks to libertarian economist Gene Epstein about Trump, free trade, and his monthly debates at the Soho Forum.
For the first time, most members in the U.S. Congress are millionaires.
Getting rid of the $100 bill is one more trim on our freedom to be left alone.
Continuing to keep interest rates near zero, as the past few years of that haven't done enough good.
Perhaps stock prices for past few years were to a large extent an inflationary bubble.
Otherwise, evidence for positive outcome from quantitative easing slim, says study from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
A look back at controversial predictions about monetary policy
Who could blame them?
Some Western leftists still defend Venezuela
Why does a virtual currency need a physical location?
