Is inflation the cost of reducing poverty?

This week, new analysis suggests that the huge amounts of money being lavished by governments won’t, on their own, lead to the rampant inflation that some now fear. What that really requires, so the theory goes, is populist policies that redistribute money from the rich to the poor. That’s our focus this week in the MoneyTalk podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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