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Whitney Baker on Why "Immaculate Disinflation" is an Illusion | #453

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What Do You Think Hits 5% First CPI?

I think what happened, although at higher and higher nominal levels, because I don't think that inflation comes down much. The appropriate framework for thinking about what's going on right now is an inflationary recession. And those guys need to engineer very big increases in realized real rates here. It's not uncommon to see 400 bit or 600 bit emergency hikes as currencies are collapsing. If they don't do that, the currency collapse reinforces the inflation.

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