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See the thing is that every single moment of inflation discourse has been completely maddening since I first became exposed to it in 2001
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If I remember correctly, people were concern trolling about inflation way back in Clinton's administration to spin the budget surplus as a bad thing.
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but... don't budget surpluses *reduce* inflation, because they take money out of the economy? or am I horribly misremembering my Keynes?
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There's a pretty convincing argument that a long-term surplus will result in inflation if it pinches aggregate supply; Keynes was looking at a few short years of the business cycle, but there are longer term trends that will assert themselves if you use Keynesian policy indefinitely
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Keynes acknowledged this, though I can't remember how clearly he agreed with it, and argued it was no reason not to act in a crisis, but was MUCH more conservative when advising the Allied government on setting up the Bretton Woods system of international finance for the long term