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The Politics of Inflation

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The Watershed of Callahan

Callahan's watershed moment was to say we are going to use fiscal policy. We're going to use public expenditure to try to bring inflation down, he says. He also used monetary policy in terms of having some control over the money supply. And this is what those like Margaret Thatcher and Enoch Powell said you just abandoned everything you stood for.

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