Back during the last presidential campaign, Donald Trump made political hay with the notion that higher than normal inflation was all down to the Democrats’ fiscal spending programmes. Never mind that prices went up for myriad reasons — like post-Covid pent-up demand, supply chain disruptions, the war in Ukraine and possibly even corporate concentration — Trump won the election in part because he was able to convince enough Americans that inflation was Joe Biden’s fault.
回到上一次總統競選期間,唐納德?特朗普(Donald Trump)借“高于常態的通脹全都源于民主黨的財政支出計劃”這一說法大做文章。且不論價格上漲有諸多原因——比如新冠后被壓抑的需求釋放、供應鏈中斷、烏克蘭戰爭,甚至可能還有企業集中度提高——特朗普之所以能部分贏得大選,正是因為他成功讓足夠多的美國人相信通脹是喬?拜登(Joe Biden)的錯。