It is not where inflation begins, and any politician who tells you otherwise is either innumerate or lying. AdvertisementThe Inflation Nobody On The Left Wants To OwnLet us be honest about origins, since honesty is apparently now a niche political position. These are true statements, and the left’s favorite hiding place, because they let inflation be discussed as though it were a hurricane nobody could have prevented. The word became a cudgel against the men now holding a bill written by their predecessors, prices already baked into the system before the new Cabinet was chosen. History, when written honestly, is written about causes.