ben powell an economist at texas tech and jeffery tucker study it they say we bet be careful the americanat and yes inflation is low. are you kidding me? look over time. grandmothers are rolling over in their graves right now. any young person has heard someone say i remember when that cost a nickel. what happened is the currency lost its value. it takes $23 to buy today what $1 could back in 1913>> you have to go back to 1913. inflation is two percent a year. historically that's pretty good. this isn't a big mystery, though. the federal reserve has saved a lot of money but the banks are holding most of it back. they are holding it at extra reserves because the fed started paying mutual funds extra returns. >> such a form of robbery, actually. i mean, yeah, it's a serious issue. you can't get a return on your money any more from savings. you can't save an investment. that is precisely what this policy is discouraging. >> let's go back to the rome parallel free trade rules they prosper and they did what politicians do. >> their empire kept expanding and they were bringing in more people yo