‘Raising Hope’ Writers Understand Monetary Policy

02/24/2014 Mises Wire Ryan McMaken

Fox comedy Raising Hope explains Bernankism (from “Burt’s Bucks“, S04E02): Video can be found here (embedding disabled)

Needless to say, it doesn’t end well. The episode even features wheelbarrows of worthless money. Also in this subgenre of money-creation-leads-to-hyper-inflation stories is this classic Duck Tales episode:

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