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Nov 11, 2021Liked by Ryan Avent

Excellent piece, as always Ryan. I got a chuckle out of:

"Inflation sucks, and it’s a shame that people have to deal with it, and if you’re Joe Biden you can’t just call a press conference and tell people to chill out because if they weren’t mad about inflation they’d just be mad about something else."

Because I said much the same (albeit not as tidily) to someone the other day.

One thing about life since WWII is there's a tacit assumption that everything should be hunky-dory and if not, then we need to hunt for someone to blame. "First world problems" as the saying goes. But as it turns out, sometimes things suck and you have to make the best decision available at the time and live with the consequences of the lesser evil. And here find ourselves in this terrible pandemic during politically fraught times, making decisions.

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