Well looks like Macrobusiness has done it again, being 100% wrong on a hysterically dramatic, deliriously hubristic call. In an unusual turn of events, this one took a whole 24 months to be proved 100% wrong, rather than the traditional 18 months. In compensation, however, the call has proven not merely 100% wrong, but more like 256% wrong!
Macrobusiness does the Humpty Dumpty on inflation. Poorly.
A good dozen years ago, my mate Mish wrote “Humpty Dumpty On Inflation“, where he lamented the slipperiness of definitions and the use of slippery definitions, by slippery types, to deny inflation or deflation, or any-other-flation: ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,’ it means just what I choose … Read more
