THE BOOK
The Price of Cheese:
How Too Much Stupidity, Not Too Much Money, Caused An Inflation
by
Dennis Paulaha, Ph.D.
The 2024 election is, like many past elections, turning out to be about the economy. Not really the economy. Inflation. The cost of living. The prices in grocery stores and at the pump.
According to a recent NBC poll of young voters, "...inflation and the cost of living was the issue that mattered most, far above threats to democracy, abortion or healthcare."
So the winner will almost certainly be determined by who independent voters, swing voters, and young voters believe was responsible for the worst inflation in 40 years.
Democrats are saying it’s Trump’s fault.
Trump is saying it’s Biden and Harris.
And Trump is winning the argument because Democrats do not know how to counter Republican lies.
The Price of Cheese is a small book of facts, not opinions, that shows how the worst inflation in a generation was caused by Trump and the Republicans.
It dismisses the printing too much money idea, the textbook cost-push and demand-pull ideas, and the excessive government spending idea.
It explains how rising prices were caused by shortages and how the shortages were caused by actions and inactions by Trump and the Republicans.
It’s that simple.
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An annotated Contents is a partial list of talking points.
Author’s Note (No refunds)
Who Cut the Cheese? (Inflation stinks)
A Who Done It (Republicans did it)
The Opening Statement (What they did)
What About Biden? (It wasn’t that old guy)
Trickled (The great con)
Printing Money (Not really)
Bonds and Money (Where money comes from)
The Chicken or the Egg? (Interest rates and money)
Don’t Follow the Money (It’s not too much money chasing too few goods)
It’s Shortages (Exactly)
Who Pays for Tariffs? (Consumers pay)
Shining a Light on Covid (Trump blew it)
Global Warming Prices
Gas Prices
House Prices
Automobile Prices
Commodity Prices
Attacking Regulations
Supporting Putin
The Hyperinflation Scam
Price Gouging (By blaming the inflation gremlin)
A Painful Cure (The interest rate fix)
Lessons (It will happen again)
Afterword
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The initial publication is a $3 eBook.
After the election, it will be available in both hard and soft cover print books, and the eBook price will be raised. Not because of inflation, but because the lessons learned are about more than inflation; they are what every businessperson and investor should know about the economy, money, interest rates, government, and the Federal Reserve. Which means it should be at least as valuable to decision makers as Who Moved My Cheese? or any other self-help business and investment book.
