Am I crazy, or is the commentariat ignoring our biggest economic threat?

03/17/2010 Mises Wire Douglas French

Michael Kinsley writes in The Atlantic that he’s worried about inflation.

“Inflation turns life into Through the Looking-Glass: you have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place,” writes Kinsley reminding me of Paul Cantor’s “Hyperinflation and Hyperreality,” just one of the great essays in Literature and the Economics of Liberty.

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