Shockingly Irresponsible Fed Policy Led to 7% Inflation

Michael Busler
4 min readJan 12, 2022

The Fed should have been in front of this. Instead, they are far behind and must now catch up quickly.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics just released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase for the month of December. The 0.5% increase means that for the entire year 2021, inflation was 7%, a 40-year high.

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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.