Is it? Surely you're not just waving out the supply chain issues and reduced productive capacity of the whole world due to lockdowns. Was inflation in the USA

Is it? Surely you're not just waving out the supply chain issues and reduced productive capacity of the whole world due to lockdowns. Was inflation in the USA higher than inflation in countries that didn't do direct deposits to people? As far as I know, it wasn't. That seems like a more fair starting point on studying effects of direct deposits.