Chris Conlon on the Post-COVID Inflation Surge and the Greedflation Narrative
Macro Musings with David Beckworth
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The Politics of Economists
I think some of the view on sort of this populist maybe left, you know, that's had this four or five think tanks have sort of spurred it up in the last five or 10 years. I think one view is that loose monetary policy has been really good for workers at the bottom of the income distribution. And we can debate whether or not that's true. What I'll also say is that there was certainly some political interest from some of these groups who felt like economists had too much influence in the policy sphere. You know, actually, it kind of looks like a pretty typical inflationary episode.
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