The Cantillon Effect is the one idea the political class cannot afford for you to understand.
New money, Cantillon observed, does not enter the economy uniformly. It enters at a specific point. It enters through the hands of a specific set of people first. And those people, because they hold the new money before prices have adjusted higher, are able to purchase real goods at old prices with new money.
New money benefits its first recipients at the expense of its last recipients.
Inflation isn't merely a tax. Inflation is a transfer β from the people farthest from the printing press to the people closest to it.
It is how the political class thrives.
And, when the people eventually understand this is how they've been enslaved, financially, there will be a revolution.
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