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Inflation.(Letters To The Editor)(Letter to the Editor)

The New American

| August 23, 2004 | Van Buren, Weston I. | COPYRIGHT 2004 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Thank you so much for the article "Is Inflation Back?" (June 28 issue) by John F. McManus. Inflation is a "process," wrote John Maynard Keynes in 1920. "which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." Keynes also made us aware of the secrecy involved. He wrote: "By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

Mr. McManus (referring back to a June 30, 2003 article) correctly informed us that "the money supply has risen $67.6 billion, or 9.6 percent, since one year ...

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