Federal Reserve Must Raise Interest Rates Now: Inflation Psychology Is Building.

Michael Busler
4 min readMay 22, 2021

Since January, inflation is about 6%. Now is the time for the Fed to act.

Since January, the inflation rate has been almost 6%. The rate has been around 2% or so for the last decade. The Federal Reserve (Fed) usually sets price stability as its primary goal, so you would think they would act. Every Fed chair always wants to…

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Michael Busler

Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.