{"id":61477,"date":"2022-01-14T19:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T00:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61477"},"modified":"2022-01-14T19:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T00:14:40","slug":"the-fed-just-guaranteed-a-stagflation-crisis-in-2022-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61477","title":{"rendered":"The Fed Just Guaranteed a Stagflation Crisis in 2022 \u2013 Here\u2019s How"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Fed Just Guaranteed a Stagflation Crisis in 2022 \u2013 Here\u2019s How<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Chair Powell leads a two day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held January 29-30th, 2019.\u00a0<\/span>Public domain photo courtesy of the\u00a0Federal Reserve<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I don\u2019t think I can overstate the danger that the U.S. economy is in right now as we enter 2022. While most people are caught up in the ongoing drama of Covid-19, a\u00a0real<\/strong>\u00a0threat looms over the nation in the form of a stagflationary tidal wave. The mainstream media is attempting to place the blame on \u201csupply chain disruptions,\u201d but this is a misrepresentation of the issue.<\/p>\n

The two factors are indeed intertwined, but the reality is that inflation is the cause of supply chain disruptions, not the result of supply chain disruptions. If we look at the underlying stats for price rises in essential products, we can get a clearer picture.<\/p>\n

Before I get into my argument, I really want to stress that this is a\u00a0truly dangerous time<\/strong>\u00a0and I suggest that\u00a0people prepare accordingly<\/strong>. In just the past few months I have seen personal expenses rise at least 20% overall, and I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the same or worse for most of you. Safe-haven investments with intrinsic value like\u00a0physical precious metals<\/a>\u00a0are a good choice for protecting whatever buying power your dollars have left\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Higher prices everywhere<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is officially at the\u00a0highest levels in 40 years<\/a>. CPI measurements often diminish the scale of the problem because they do not include things like food, energy and housing which are core expenses for the public. CPI calculations have also been \u201cadjusted\u201d over the past few decades by the government to express a more positive view on inflation…<\/p>\n

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The Fed Just Guaranteed a Stagflation Crisis in 2022 \u2013 Here\u2019s How Chair Powell leads a two day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) held January 29-30th, 2019.\u00a0Public domain photo courtesy of the\u00a0Federal Reserve I don\u2019t think I can overstate the danger that the U.S. economy is in right now as we enter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18769,5993,1055,172,303,431,534,538,13351,3303,827,3650],"class_list":["post-61477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-birch-gold-group","tag-brandon-smith","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-cpi","tag-fed","tag-interest-rates","tag-monetary-policy","tag-money-printing","tag-price-inflation","tag-stagflation","tag-united-states","tag-us-federal-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61479,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61477\/revisions\/61479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}