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The Economists Have Failed Us
Myopic focus on wages led them to overlook a costly inflation wave.
Sticker shock.
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We talk a lot about the looming population collapse that will soon befall US cities, and the need for millennials to lighten up and have more children. But nobody mentions the role berries play in this crisis. How are families expected to pop out two, three, or four kids when the price of strawberries has nearly doubled in two decades? It’s no wonder one-and-done parenting is on the rise: