Milton Friedman is having a moment.

The Nobel Prize-winning economist, who died in 2006, famously declared that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Surging money supply and inflation in the last year have Mr. Friedman’s followers declaring, “I told you so.”

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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