Thursday, January 17, 2013

The inflation elixir

..........Make no mistake: by fostering inflation, the government enables the transfer of resources from the poor to the rich. The costs of inflation fall heavily on the most vulnerable. This is especially so since food price inflation has been particularly high. And as the poor struggle, the public deficit is used to dole out large subsidies to those with political clout, including to large farmers............

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