And this cost-push crap is important because

This cost-push crap is important because economic growth has been slowing for a long time, for so long that many people now think slow growth is normal.

Slow growth is normal, you know, for a country at the end, when it is dying. A lot of people might say slow growth is just one of the things that happens when a country is dying.

But slow growth is the disease. It's what kills the country.