The Different Views of Inflation

The Fed is raising interest rates, and this affects all of us. But does it have to be this way? Do we have to recession our way out of this? Have we always done it this way? The US has tried different ways to deal with inflation for over a century,. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. We're going to go back and meet everyone from an army of militant housewives to a president trying to do his best FDR impression in a moment of oil crisis. In the process, we'll learn the incredible, sometimes surprising ways the US has tried to solve the mystery of inflation.