The Rich Should Shoulder The Burden Of Inflation, Not Us

Myself and others on the left have been saying for months that interest rate hikes are a blunt instrument through which to deal with inflation. Not only that, but raising rates and intentionally generating a recession will disproportionately harm workers at just the moment when labour is finally rebounding after two years of pandemic crisis….

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