Introduction

The 12 gallons of milk episode of slated money is your guide to the business and finance news of the week. We're going to talk about the price of milk because c n n had a segment ostensibly about inflation, in which they featured a family in texas with nine children that goes through 12 gallon of milk a week. The real reason we're talking about this is because this is our occasional furray into the important, yet dry world of monetary policy. And milk makes everything wetter. You pour milk on it and it becomes much more palatable.