Stagflation for the Vigorously Ignorant

This is how it works. There’s a small business owner in rural New York.  Let’s call her Cindy Lee, because Cindy Lou is already spoken for.  Let’s say she owns a bowling alley. The economic strangulation caused by COVID-panic did nothing for her business, which is now hanging on by its fingernails.  Neither did the …

No, Joe – It Ain’t So

On June 22, 2021, Jerome Powell, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, reacted to a worrisome increase in the Consumer Price Index of 5.4%, year-over-year.  “Inflation,”  he solemnly noted to the scribbling classes, “is transitory”.  Nothing to worry about, folks.  His take was swiftly parroted by others in the Biden Administration and throughout the legacy …

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