Discussions of inflation are often laden with an air of superstition and moral panic. Like all such things they can only persist in the face of misunderstanding and rumor. One of the most common and most important pieces of economic misinformation is the old “quantity theory” of money: The notion that if you create more of the stuff it is worth …

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