Eric believes the most important factor for determining whether current inflation is transitory or represents a new secular inflation is examining how the inflation characterizes itself and comparing it against historical supply-shock cases versus monetary inflation cases.

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Eric Townsend

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I'm going to argue that maybe the most important thing is figuring out whether this inflation... is transitory... or... a new secular inflation... how do we characterize monetary inflation that might have long-term secular impacts... or differentiate it from Supply shock inflation which we expect to be transitory

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MacroVoices #387 Jeff Snider: On Deflation and Soft LandingMacro Voices
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:18:11 PM

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