With CPI Up, Fed Must Now Raise Interest Rates

Michael Busler
DataDrivenInvestor
Published in
4 min readApr 10, 2024

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Inflation is a cancer that must be treated early and aggressively.

The Consumer Price Index for March was just released. The monthly CPI number indicated that overall consumer prices rose by 0.4% in March, the same increase as the prior month. For the last year consumer prices have increased 3.5% up from 3.2% last month. With the increases since last December the proper monetary…

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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.