Foundation for Economic Education | Inflation is a Crime. YOU’RE the Victim. @FEEonline | Uploaded March 2022 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
After two years of “flattening the curve”, America’s pandemic response has resulted in the flattening of wallets. An unprecedented amount of money printing has sent prices skyrocketing, and Americans trying to get their lives “back to normal” are experiencing anything but.

Surprisingly, Amazon’s new “Reacher” series can teach us a lot about our inflationary woes.

At the end of the day, the counterfeiting criminals in Reacher are nearly indistinguishable from the Federal Reserve pumping our financial system full of fiat fakery. In both situations, everyone’s money has less value because more dollars are chasing the same amount of goods and services. Let’s break it down further on this feature episode of Out of Frame.
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LINKS:

– Inflation –
wsj.com/articles/wsj-poll-biden-inflation-voters-11638897374
bls.gov/cpi
cnbc.com/2022/02/10/inflation-eroded-pay-by-1point7percent-over-the-past-year.html
wsj.com/articles/inflation-disproportionately-hurts-the-poor-11624207206
fee.org/articles/3-ways-rising-price-inflation-hurts-everyday-americans
tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2022-02-22/consumer-confidence-ticks-down-in-february-on-inflation-fears
nbcnews.com/business/business-news/whats-causing-inflation-economists-point-fingers-different-culprits-rcna16156
techstartups.com/2021/12/18/80-us-dollars-existence-printed-january-2020-october-2021
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Supply-demand-right-shift-demand.svg#/media/File:Supply-demand-right-shift-demand.svg

– Venezuela –
cnbc.com/2019/08/02/venezuela-inflation-at-10-million-percent-its-time-for-shock-therapy.html
aljazeera.com/economy/2021/10/1/venezuela-introduces-new-currency-drops-six-zeros
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela

– The Great Debasement –
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Debasement
jstor.org/stable/2593065
https://www.tcd.ie/Economics/assets/pdf/SER/1997/Catherine_Downey.pdf

– Counterfeiting –
fox4now.com/news/local-news/man-sentenced-to-federal-prison-for-using-counterfeit-money
washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/17/virginia-woman-sentenced-counterfeit-coupon-scam
mysuncoast.com/2021/05/25/counterfeiter-cant-stop-now-hes-headed-back-prison

– Money Supply & Diminishing Marginal Return –
image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106649548-1596642770437-20200805_m2_money_supply_percent_change_year_earlier.png?v=1
reuters.com/business/economists-eye-surging-money-supply-inflation-fears-mount-2021-06-17
economics21.org/americas-ballooning-money-supply
investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingmarginalreturn.asp

– CPI & Interest Rates –
nytimes.com/2022/02/10/business/economy/inflation-cpi-january-2022.html
investopedia.com/producer-price-inflation-rises-in-january-2022-5219109
reuters.com/business/fed-raise-rates-three-times-this-year-tame-unruly-inflation-2022-01-20

– We Set The Economy On Fire (2020 economic prediction) –
youtu.be/Cpvm8ZKfKh0