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Opinion: If Trump aims to bring down prices, his policies will need to swerve

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President Trump was elected with a specific mandate, it was to lower prices, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer : Today 's rising inflation isn’t Trump ’s fault; to conquer inflation, he will need the help of Congress .

He says the dollar will lose 29 cents of its purchasing power within a decade ; inflation is a betrayal of sound money principles.

Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University . This article was produced in collaboration with Creators Syndicate . This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times ..