This is cosmology, not monetary policy. Guth’s theory of inflation has just received a big boost from the data. Here is Andrei Linde’s portrayal of how an inflationary field fluctuates. Here is a slower version with higher resolution. Here is Linde’s home page, which has many other time wasters.
Addendum: Best sentence I read today: "Galaxies are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky," by Brian Greene.
“And the Lord said, let there be light, and there was light.”
Very, verrrrry spooky that ANYTHING in the present universe could leave a discernible difference between two competing possibilities for what happened one-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.
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