Larry Summers Gets His ‘Told You So’ Moment on Inflation
文章来源: 蓝调2021-12-25 14:50:55

 

 

The Harvard professor, former Treasury secretary and paid Bloomberg contributor rained on everyone’s parade last spring by warning that the U.S. government’s generous bailout payments might spawn inflation—a bogeyman many others discounted. Fast-forward to today and many economists are (sheepishly) admitting he was more right than wrong about rising prices. The Federal Reserve has jettisoned the word “transitory” from its vocabulary, and President Joe Biden’s approval rating is suffering as the nation endures 6.8% inflation.

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