Early 2021, Larry Summers and Ferguson argued an inflationary accident was happening due to massive fiscal overshoot—the stimulus continued even after the economy would heal naturally with vaccines—and the Fed accommodated this by purchasing a very large proportion of new Treasury debt in 2021-22.

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Niall Ferguson

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if you go back to early 2021 uh a small number of people uh notably Larry Summers argued that an inflationary accident was happening that was also my view at the time

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The 4 Biggest Threats to the West, According to Historian Ferguson | At Barron'sBarron's
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:29:25 PM

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