It’s time to curb triple-digit inflation

On MARCH 28THSBFHRCAOCMTGRBGKBJAKKSLS DSKVVPKGBUAEMBZMBSAMLO was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud in the collapse of his crypto exchange. One particularly undignified aspect of the cryptocurrency crash has been the habit of referring to Mr Bankman-Fried as . This triple-initialising has become ubiquitous in America. Hillary Rodham Clinton likes to be known as , while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive member of Congress, is widely called (confusing the French, who take this to refer to wine and cheese of ). On the far right Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conspiracy-theorist member of Congress from Georgia, styles herself on social media as . The late , a Supreme Court justice, became, to her bemused surprise, the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary entitled “”. Now the court has ().The habit is global. Germans refer to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a former defence minister, as , and to Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a former justice minister, as (both are apparently too much of a mouthful even for native-speakers). French ex-politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn is called . Russians know Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as , who got his start in the . () has as its de facto ruler Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, or , and in Saudi Arabia the man in charge is Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, commonly shortened to . In Mexico, meanwhile, the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is known as —an alarming escalation to four digits.