Stephanomics
Stephanomics
Bloomberg
Inflation Makes Duke Bootee Wonder How I Keep From Going Under
25 minutes Posted Mar 16, 2017 at 1:52 pm.
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Who says economics has to be all about numbers? Take a trip back in time with the Benchmark crew to the early 1980s, when double-digit inflation was such a scourge that it inspired a lyric in the hip-hop classic "The Message." Ed "Duke Bootee" Fletcher, who wrote most of the song, joins Scott and Dan to talk about those lyrics -- and a whole lot more. Then Alice Rivlin, a former Fed vice chair, gives perspective on inflation from her decades in the economic-policy world.

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