Politics in the Fight Against Inflation
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4 min readApr 23, 2024
4/23/24
One of the disturbing features about economics as a field of study is that it really doesn’t have a particularly good handle on inflation and how to cure it. Our best remedy is a blunt effort to try to slow economic growth to broadly limit inflationary pressures, thereby threatening to substitute higher unemployment and slower job creation for lower inflation.