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The Importance of Independent Estimates of Inflation
Inflation is a transfer of wealth from creditors to debtors. Who are the biggest debtors in the world? Governments. The United States has $32 trillion of funded debt, almost. And our unfunded liabilities, commitments that have been made where they didn't borrow the money, but they're on the hook,. That's like $100 trillion. So when the government creates inflation, they repudiate enormous amounts of their debt.