Argentine Inflation Is Still Much Too High
Written by Ramesh Ponnuru
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And this isn't a complicated story: It's because the money supply in Argentina keeps growing too fast. Scott Sumner:
Milton Friedman famously said that persistent inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, by which he meant a money supply phenomenon.
I’d say that high rates of persistent inflation are always and everywhere a money supply phenomenon. [Emphases in original.]

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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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