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Also, in the U.S., the tax system is imbalanced against wages and earnings, in favor of unearned income, such as capital gains. Newberrry wrote in the comment that meso-inflation can be used to hold down inflation, and I think this U.S. tax imbalance is an example - it holds down the wage side of classic cost-push inflation.
What also struck me is that Newberry wrote:
The root of meso-inflation is an imbalance of incentives. At a certain point this imbalance becomes so pervasive that it makes monetary policy useless.
What is particularly worrisome to me is that as we have slashed interest rates 225 basis points, consumer loans -- mortgages and revolving credit -- have actually moved higher.
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