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You're listening to episode 199 of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about the mystery of inflation

and the pocketbook pain it causes. I'm Dom Betanelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin.

Hi Jimmy. Howdy, Dom. Folks here on mysterious world, we have certain tropes that turn up from time

to time. One is it's always aliens or another is it's always demons because those are the two

explanations for mysteries that people tend to leap to. When we're covering an historical mystery,

and Jimmy mentions how much something cost in the past, Ilafa mentioned how much it would cost

in today's dollars, and then he'll add, because of the inflation the government has caused.

Well, listeners like you have noticed and we've been getting requests for Jimmy to explain.

So what is inflation? Why does it happen? And why does Jimmy say the government is responsible?

Well, that's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world.

So Jimmy, to begin, I want to throw to you again. Why did you want to cover this topic?

Well, because of the questions that we've gotten from listeners and because inflation is back in

the news this year. A long time ago, I did a study of economics and learned that the government is

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