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Inflation Peaks? Perhaps…But for All the Wrong Reasons

The inflation spiral may abate, but only through a brutal unfolding recession.

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Steve Cortes
Nov 30, 2022
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For most of 2021 and into 2022, powerbrokers in Washington DC insisted that burgeoning inflation was “transitory.”

Of course, that narrative was a lie. Far from transitory, inflation embeds deeply in …

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