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As Dr. Krugman used to say, those folks are the VSP, the "Very Serious People." Always looking for a reason to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable.

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Can you please give me an alternative? I mean, you really have to squint to not see this as analogous to the short-run transitory inflation burst that was the Korean War episode...

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(Professor, I'm not a deep thinker. I just spout off sometimes.)

An alternative to VSPism? On the merits you have given a very good explanation why not to engage in inflation doom mongering. So the worry-worts are either posturing (driven by (A) genuine fear of the unknown--after all we haven't seen any real inflation in forever, in dog years-or (B) the need to look smart to the other cool kids), or they really are looking for a way to talk the economy into slowing down in order to...what? Let's go Brandon? Be sure wages stay flat? I'm trying not to assume bad motives, but it ain't easy.

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As I said, I do not track what they are thinking, or why they are doing so. But they are definitely thinking it...

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