Economist on How High Inflation Takes Time To Build Up
June 16, 2026
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as posted by the channelKenneth Rogoff is an economics professor and chair of international economics at Harvard University. From 2001 to 2003, he was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is the co-author of “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,” a history of financial crises, and the graduate text “Foundations of International Macroeconomics.” In 2025, he published “Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead.”
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