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Fending Off Inflation (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)

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Why high inflation is a potentially dire problem ... Are we headed the way of Weimar Germany and Argentina? ... How short-term government spending can function as a longterm investment ... The looming threat of the fiscal gap ... Why is the US’s fiscal gap so large compared to that of other countries? ... Larry: We’re on the path to becoming a second-rate country ... Why Larry thinks we should index taxes to inflation ... Can we pay for what we’re spending without printing money? ...

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Glenn Loury