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RWH012: Fear the Fed w/ Jim Grant

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

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The Fed's Options for Dealing With Inflation

Bob Greene: The Fed's options for dealing with inflation are limited. He says what the Fed does is to pursue a course of demand destruction, perverbially and trivial inflation. It's too much money chasing, too few goods, too much demand in relation to supply, he says. Greene: What happens when you raise the rate of interest on companies that need to borrow? They can't stay alive. So there's a whole chain of economic activity that goes to support uneconomic activity.

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