The time and effort that people put into managing higher prices wears on them and helps explain how resilience coexists with frustration. Rising prices are more common than rising wages: “Sometimes when you get a job, salaries are frozen for two or three years. Rising prices were a strain then, too, but workers were switching jobs to find higher pay. Otherwise, the strategies for dealing with higher prices were much like those in the Beige Book: shopping around for deals, taking on debt, and relying on assistance programs. The very best minds on inflation include the people paying the higher prices.