Our inflation woes continue.

New data indicate that the Federal Reserve’s preferred price index rose 5.8% from a year ago, the largest increase in nearly 40 years. But as economics commentators, business leaders, and policymakers sound the alarm, one group has surprisingly little to say. Modern monetary theorists loudly defended printing-press finance when inflation was low. But now they claim surging prices are beyond our control.

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