Why this is not ever talked about is beyond me. Guess those in the goobermint couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended upon it.
At least once a week, my econ professer(a one eyed, deaf, and spoke in a montone WWI vet) told us not to let anyone BS us. In a paper money economy, the government controls the presses and inflation, when everything goes up in price, it isn’t due to supply and demand. That is about all I learned in that class.
The problem is that neither the MSM nor the conservative media have any conception of the problems that have been created by government overspending, debt creation beyond all reason, and ineffective leadership by those in charge of our ship of state. The left, politically refuses to recognize the problem because the remedies they have for the economy is more spending and debt creation, the conservatives refuse to admit to the problems because the government(Bush), for which they voted has so totally mismanaged the nation during the last 8 years.