Economist on How High Inflation Takes Time To Build Up

Kenneth Rogoff is an economics professor and chair of international economics at Harvard University. From 2001 to 2003, he was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is the co-author of “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly,” a history of financial crises, and the graduate text “Foundations of International Macroeconomics.” In 2025, he published “Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead.”

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Rogoff spoke to FRONTLINE’s James Jacoby on March 25, 2026 for our documentary "The President vs. the Fed." Watch excerpts from that interview above.

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