Inflation in April skyrockets. And it will get worse.

Michael Busler
4 min readMay 16, 2021

Since January, the inflation rate is nearly 6%.

In spite of the somewhat positive spin that the media is trying to put on the recently released inflation rate data, the .8% gain in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for April is very worrisome. Especially considering it follows a CPI monthly gain of .3% in January, .4% in February and .6% in March. That means inflation for…

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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.