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Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken?

2023-09-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·23m 17s ·by NPR
Is economists' favorite tool to crush inflation broken?
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When economists and policymakers talk about getting inflation under control, there’s an assumption they often make: bringing inflation down will probably result in some degree of layoffs and job loss. But that is not the way things have played out since inflation spiked last year. Instead, so far, i