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by dragonwriter 2976 days ago
> The federal reserve driving high monetary inflation (ie low interest rates) has fallen squarely in the times of the most income inequality

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> The Federal Reserve and its monetary policies can not be ruled out as the issue.

The current easy-money policy postdates the trend of rising inequality by around four decades; it can unequivocally, therefore, be ruled out as the cause of that trend, unless one accepts retrocausality as plausible.