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** Supply-Side Expansion Has Driven the Decline in Inflation
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With the steep deceleration of inflation in the first half of 2023, the fears of a sustained, 1970s-esque scenario are now behind us.

And the primary reason for that disinflation ([link removed]) is an expansion of supply, Roosevelt’s Mike Konczal explains in a new brief.

“[A]t the moment, the inflation story is exactly what a ‘soft landing’ ([link removed]) would have predicted,” Konczal writes.

“A combination of resolving supply shocks and a subtle decrease in demand has driven inflation down dramatically, with no cost to the level of employment.”

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** What We’re Reading
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Inflation Is Falling. Don’t Thank the Fed. [by Roosevelt Senior Fellow J.W. Mason] ([link removed]) - Barron’s

“Really Bad Economics”: Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz Explains Where the Fed Went Wrong on Inflation ([link removed]) - CNBC

Saule Omarova’s Plan to Remake the Financial System ([link removed]) - Dissent

The Gap between Men and Women in the Workplace Is at a Record Low ([link removed]) - Axios

Presidential Centers Ring the Alarm on the State of Our Democracy ([link removed]) - MSNBC

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