but they just don t know how can you fine-tune 330 million people in this country. you can t do it. the fed should try to keep the dollar stable in value. if they had we wouldn t have the inflation we have now and in the future and leave it at that. why are they manipulating interest rates? it s like rent control. controlling the price of money. they always get it wrong. the question is how much they ll get it wrong. so in this book we go in the past how governments have messed up inflation. occasionally they do it right. most of the time they do it wrong. the movie today is an old one that goes back centuries. in romance time they used to blame christians. now it s meat company and oil company executives. dana: the white house has gone through the five stages of inflation grief. at first it was trtransitory, then trying to blame it on putin and saying there is nothing we can do about it. is there something they can do