The Fed is on the hot seat as the Great Inflation looms
The Fed is on the hot seat as the Great Inflation looms We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Normal text size Advertisement We know what caused the Great Inflation of the Johnson-Nixon years: the US stoked a fiscal boom to pay for both the Vietnam War and the War on Poverty at the same time. America continued to ramp up “guns and butter” spending after the output gap had been closed and the economy was hitting capacity constraints. Rather than raising taxes to pay for welfare expansion, it relied on loose money fr...