Plenty of economists predicted inflation lol EDIT: To be clear, I think more of them should have, and it's shameful that they didn't. But the old Econ orthodox

Plenty of economists predicted inflation lol EDIT: To be clear, I think more of them should have, and it's shameful that they didn't. But the old Econ orthodoxy would have, and this detour from the idea that printing money causes inflation is a fairly recent thing, and wasn't by any means a consensus position.