#128 L. Randall Wray & Yeva Nersisyan: What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?

Patricia and Christian talk to MMT economists L. Randall Wray and Yeva Nersisyan about their most recent paper, “What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation? Pandemic Or Policy Response?”

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“What’s Causing Accelerating Inflation: Pandemic or Policy Response?”

by Yeva Nersisyan & L. Randall Wray: https://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/whats-causing-accelerating-inflation-pandemic-or-policy-response

“Still Flying Blind After All These Years: The Federal Reserve’s Continuing Experiments With Unobservables” by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou & L. Randall Wray: https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/ppb_156.pdf

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