Former Chairman of the council of economic advisers Kevin Hassett argued on Wednesday, shortly after the release of April’s inflation data, that the Federal Reserve’s policies to try to alleviate soaring prices are not “having any effect at all right now.”
He stressed on “Mornings with Maria” that based on the data released on Wednesday, “there are really no signs that inflation is slowing down.”
Inflation cooled on an annual basis for the first time in months in April, but rose more than expected as supply chain constraints, the Russian war in Ukraine and strong consumer demand continued to keep consumer prices running near a 40-year-high.
The Labor Department said Wednesday that the consumer price index, a broad measure of the price for everyday goods including gasoline, groceries and rents, rose 8.3% in April from a year ago, below the 8.5% year-over-year surge recorded in March. Prices jumped 0.3% in the one-month period from March.
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First and foremost, to curb inflation, the insane spending and fiat money creation has to be stopped. Those two factors trigger all of the rest of the inflation. It’s like the old mouse traps and string chain reaction demonstration.
Let’s spend money that we don’t have and then print more ‘funny money’ without gold to back it up and then wonder why inflation is rising into the stratosphere.
Just look at the 57 Executive Orders Biden made…then you will know why we have inflation. Biden hasn’t made a good decision in 50 years. It’s Biden’s Bummer Bolshevism.