October 1979 Issue [Article] Fooling with the budget Adjust Share How Congress causes inflation by Tom Bethell, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Appropriations and expenditures Consumption (Economics) Deficit financing Inflation (Finance) United States United StatesCongress More from Tom Bethell Sparks Eric Hoffer and the art of the notebook A never writer Agnostic evolutionists The taxonomic case against Darwin Adjust Share