Inflationistas*

Is Inflation a Highly Regressive tax on wages? by Dean Baker

Much Ado About Zero (Wonkish) by Krugman

In Wicksellian Terms, It Is Easier for a Central Bank to Alter the Nominal Market Rate of Interest than for It to Alter the Nominal Natural Rate of Interest: Why the Zero Lower Bound Matters by DeLong

As I see it, having high unemployment is a regressive tax on the "middle class." Government policies are structuring the market so that we have slow growth and high unemployment. Wages don't rise with productivity. Inequality rises though.

That last time wages rose with productivity was in the late '90s, something candidate Obama pointed out to BusinessWeek and the Wall Street Journal.

When the economy isn't running at capacity, the government is engineering a regressive tax on wages.

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*Inflationistas want low inflation and slow growth