And inflation is something which most people's experience of belies what CPI-type measures tell

them.

In other words, you can squawk all you want about how there's not enough inflation, but

when people have spent 10 years feeling like they're getting farther behind, it doesn't

ring true.

So it was a major, major narrative misfire to focus on inflation rather

than growth, and in particular, a type of growth which would have been more inclusive.

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What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, August 29th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap.

And today I wanted to try to tie together the threads that we've been talking about all week that

connect the dots between Bitcoin and Jerome Powell's speech and really try to get a sense of

where we are big picture.

I'm calling this episode the end of an era.

So Jerome Powell this week tried to bookend an era that started with the 1970s.

Part of why he pointed to that time, I believe, is that Paul Volcker has risen to folk hero status

in economists and politicians and business people's minds, right? He was the person who was willing

to raise rates during a recession to wrestle inflation to the ground. Of course, he had the backing of his president to do so,

which puts him in a very different position to where Powell is now. But you could still see

this sort of sense of historicity in the presentation from the Fed chair. He tried to make the argument

this week that, while back then it was inflation that was the

problem, it is now the lack of inflation.

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