Seller Inflation Is a Myth Created by Statism

Seller Inflation Is a Myth Created by Statism
U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary Harry Dexter White (L) and John Maynard Keynes, honorary advisor to the U.K. Treasury, at the inaugural meeting of the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors in Savannah, Ga., on March 8, 1946. IMF
Daniel Lacalle
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Interventionists always blame inflation on everything and anything except the only thing that makes aggregate prices rise: issuing more units of currency than the real demand. Seller inflation is the same excuse and fallacy as cost-push inflation. A way to confuse citizens and assign causation to something that cannot make aggregate prices rise.

Daniel Lacalle
Daniel Lacalle
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Daniel Lacalle, Ph.D., is chief economist at hedge fund Tressis and author of the bestselling books “Freedom or Equality” (2020), “Escape from the Central Bank Trap” (2017), “The Energy World Is Flat”​ (2015), and “Life in the Financial Markets.”
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