Central banks spent over a decade creating inflation, while using rigged CPI indexes to claim there wasn't enough inflation. Now that the consequences have materialized, it's too late to put out the fire. What we have seen thus far with inflation is just the tip of the iceberg.
Why is Jerome Powell confident that he can tighten policy enough to reduce inflation from 8.5% to 2% without causing another financial crisis? Thanks to the Fed's easy money, which created the inflation problem, the current debt bubble is much larger than the one that popped in 2008.
Jerome Powell doesn't realize how vulnerable the U.S. economy is to higher interest rates as he thinks Fed policies of ZIRP and QE solved the problems exposed by the 2008 financial crisis. Those policies only made the problems worse, while postponing and exacerbating the consequences.
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With official year-on-year (YoY) German inflation at 8.7%, a 60-year high and headed higher, the Euro experiment is clearly a failure. It's not the new Deutsch Mark, it's the new Italian Lira. Germany needs to leave the Euro Zone and really build back better by returning to a gold-backed mark. Gexit!
"German Inflation Hits 60-Year-High, 'Worse To Come', Says Allianz" - in ZeroHedge